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Committee forwards measure asking city contractors to seek voluntary sexual-orientation and gender-identity data
Summary
The Government and Oversight Committee voted to forward an ordinance requiring city departments and health/social-service contractors to seek voluntary collection of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data; sponsors said the change will help target services and funding, while some speakers noted employment data and youth confidentiality raise separate issues.
Supervisor Scott Wiener on Thursday asked the Government and Oversight Committee to forward an ordinance that would require city departments and contractors providing health care and social services to seek, collect and analyze voluntary data on clients’ sexual orientation and gender identity. Wiener said the change is necessary “because without data, we cannot fully be part of society.”
The measure, which the sponsor said implements recommendations from the LGBT Aging Policy Task Force, would apply to the Department of Public Health, Department of Human Services, Department of Children, Youth and Their Families, Department of Aging and Adult Services…
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