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Tompkins County committee directs staff to form Office of Human Rights working group

2582840 · February 19, 2025
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Summary

The Health and Human Services Committee directed county staff to form an Office of Human Rights Working Group to identify options for the office's role, staffing and fair-housing responsibilities and return recommendations to the committee.

Tompkins County's Health and Human Services Committee voted to ask county staff to form an Office of Human Rights Working Group to develop options for how the office should be structured and staffed.

The committee, chaired by Travis Brooks, said it wants staff to involve the Human Rights Commission in any options presented. "What I would hope to do is for this committee to kinda share some ideas and direction for Corsa and his team, so they can explore and come back to us with, different options or different plans for us to choose from," Brooks said during the committee's chair's report.

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