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Human Rights Commission: two-thirds of 2024 contacts cited race, education settings a frequent site
Summary
Leslie Dominguez Santos, Barnstable County human rights coordinator, reported 45 intake touch points in 2024 and said two-thirds of those callers identified race as a basis for their complaint; schools and public spaces were among the most-cited locations.
Leslie Dominguez Santos, human rights coordinator for Barnstable County, reviewed the Human Rights Advisory Commission’s 2024 activities and intake data for the Assembly of Delegates on May 21, saying race-based reports made up “fully two thirds of the phone calls that I received.”
The commission recorded 45 touch points in 2024 — calls or online reports seeking information, reporting incidents, or requesting referrals — and staff tracked protected-class categories aligned with federal and Massachusetts law. Dominguez Santos told the assembly she added a “reports” category in 2023 to capture incidents callers wanted logged but not pursued for further action.
Education settings were a prominent…
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