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What's The Connection Between the Washington State Human Rights Commission (WSHRC), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) and the city of Seattle's Office of Civil Rights?

Fri Oct 9, 2009 6:23 AM EDT

education, civil-rights, discrimination, bias, harassment, retaliation, federal-funding

By Mariyam

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

WSHRC has a long-standing partnership with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
Under a worksharing agreement, WSHRC investigates and receives reimbursement for complaints that would otherwise be filed with EEOC under federal Law .

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

WSHRC has a similar worksharing agreement with HUD to receive and conduct housing complaints that would otherwise be filed with HUD under federal law. HUD contract cases represent about 11% of all cases closed and 95% of all housing cases closed. The HUD contract represents 16% of WSHRC's allocated annual budget..

WSHRC has conducted several joint activities with HUD and other local civil rights groups. Each quarter our agency, HUD, the Seattle office for Civil Rights, and the Tacoma Human Rights Department conduct joint trainings on the Fair Housing Law for housing providers, attorneys, and other interested parties.

I wonder what's the difference between a "closed" case and a "resolved" case because according to a Seattle PI reporter, the City of Seattle's Office of Civil Rights (the "Had Enough?" people) has a annual budget of 1.8 million, employs 22 people including 6 full time investigators yet manages to find discrimination in only 1% of the cases.

Washington State Human Rights Commission - 2006-2011 STRATEGIC PLAN

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Public Discussion (3)

Jay Keggerlord

Let's see... on the state level vs. national level, we have:

WSHRC vs. EEOC
WISHA vs. OSHA
Dept. of Ecology vs. EPA
Washington Department of Agriculture vs. Department of Agriculture

... and this list is not all-inclusive. Our tax dollars are being spent so redunantly to enforce "enhanced" federal laws, that it's absolutely insane. The obvious result from this is exactly what you're seeing: Innefficient use of resources leading to less than stellar results. Further, you see disparate standards between the results of these departments' actions and those of their federal counterparts and therefore have nothing to compare them to in other states. Makes the efforts of Tim Eyman seem a little more sane once you put it into that perspective, no?

2 votes

#1 - Fri Oct 9, 2009 9:30 AM EDT

pjwrites

Jay, I say, WTH, at least government is providing jobs, whereas private interests have become too insular and top-heavy or are too small-time and hog-tied to be able to.

Are we looking at a government take-over of our economy, or do we need to look inward and blame ourselves?

In any country, when the money becomes concentrated with 1% of the population, to the point that ours has, it is virtually impossible to produce enough, to create enough jobs, to create enough opportunities, ad nauseum, because 1% of the population has the majority of all possible wealth sitting in their bank accounts or "investment" accounts, earning them even more money. The majority of those "investments" today focus on shuffling paper, not on producing anything concrete or really anything at all of any value to anyone else.

It's a catch 22, our economic system. Because when the private sector doesn't produce jobs, who will, if not government?

2 votes

#1.1 - Fri Oct 9, 2009 11:03 AM EDT

eriq samson

no, Jay; you don't understand. The State of Washington has different laws from the federal laws AND has first crack at resolving them so the redundancy is resolved - the State investigates.

Unfortunately they are pretty bad at it, not knowing their own laws, but Hey! what's a few civil rights violations among friends if the victims are poor anyways?

3 votes

#1.2 - Sat Oct 10, 2009 3:59 AM EDT

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