Your guide to NYC's public proceedings.
Q&A
Project Equal Access and pre-complaint intervention
1:06:17
·
87 sec
Michael Griffin, Policy Counsel at NYC Commission on Human Rights, explains Project Equal Access and its role in pre-complaint intervention for accessibility issues. He outlines the scope and focus of the program in response to Council Member Williams' questions.
- Project Equal Access is a form of pre-complaint intervention used by the Law Enforcement Bureau
- It focuses primarily on physical accessibility issues, particularly in housing
- The program also covers some public accommodations but is not currently active in the employment space
- Pre-complaint intervention outside of Project Equal Access operates across all CCHR jurisdictions
Nantasha Williams
1:06:17
Okay, okay I want to talk about Project Equal Access or equal, you know, access.
1:06:25
CCHR's Law Enforcement Bureau has been tasked with working with housing providers, businesses, employers and other entities to ensure compliance with the New York City human rights law.
1:06:38
Could you tell us more about Project Equal Access and its successes and challenges so far especially with respect to compliance with accessibility laws?
Michael Griffin
1:06:52
Thank you for the question.
1:06:55
As discussed earlier, Project Equal Access is one form of pre complaint intervention that the law enforcement bureau uses as tools to help achieve specific performance related to reasonable accommodations.
1:07:10
In the Project Equal Access space, it is specifically related to physical accessibility issues that individuals come to the commission and raise.
1:07:23
Project Equal Access is mostly focused on housing.
1:07:28
It does do a small amount of work in public accommodations currently, and currently it is not active in the employment space.
1:07:37
But our pre complaint intervention program outside of PEA does work across all of our jurisdictions.