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Human Rights Commission asks council to back enforcement ordinance to address local discrimination
Summary
The Human Rights Commission presented a proposal to expand from advisory functions to enforcement powers consistent with Virginia code, citing intake statistics and consultations with other Virginia localities and state attorneys; commissioners said additional staffing would be required to implement enforcement.
Samantha Galena, chair of Richmond’s Human Rights Commission, and vice chair Emily Wulftecke presented the commission’s recent work and a draft enforcement ordinance that would move the commission from an advisory role to an enforcement-capable body.
Galena told the committee the commission has three committees—community engagement, research and policy development, and intake and investigation—and has expanded outreach and intake in the past year. She said roughly 70 percent of inquiries so far have…
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