AN ACT CONCERNING THE HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION for the purpose of amending the name of the Human Relations Commission to provide clarity to citizens and other governmental agencies as to the mission and function of the agency, modifying language to increase inclusion and diversity, adding gender identity as a protected class, clarifying roles and authority of the Human Relations Commission and the appointed Commissioners, and re-establishing the Human Relations Commission as separate and apart from the Office of Community Relations.

Committee

Sitting as the Committee of the Whole

Requested by

County Executive

Introduced

September 8, 2020

On agenda

September 15, 2020

Passed

November 30, 2020