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Human and Civil Rights Commission Ordinance Vote during the Metropolitan King County Council Meeting, 12-12-19

At the September 24, 2019 Law and Justice Committee, staff from the Seattle University
School of Law’s Korematsu Center for Law and Equality provided a presentation on
their report on the county’s Civil Rights Commission. The report included research on
leading practices on civil rights commissions in local jurisdictions across the United
States and 11 recommendations to enhance the civil rights commission for the county.

Proposed Ordinance 2019-0477 will adopt the recommendations to do the following:

• Establish an independent King County human and civil rights commission;
• Authorize the commission to investigate and enforce county anti-discrimination
ordinances and allow subpoena powers;
• Authorize the commission to appoint an executive director that would be an
employee of the council but report directly to the commission;
• Expand the list of protected classes that are covered under the county’s
anti-discrimination ordinances; and
• Decommission the existing King County civil rights commission and the office of
civil rights and transfer all of their activities to the newly established commission.