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The California Civil Rights Department (CRD), formerly known as the Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH), is an agency of California state government charged with the protection of residents from employment, housing and public accommodation discrimination, and hate violence.
California law and the FEHA also allow for the imposition of punitive damages [9] [10] when a corporate defendant's officers, directors or managing agents engage in harassment, discrimination, or retaliation, or when such persons approve or consciously disregard prohibited conduct by lower-level employees in violation of the rights or safety of the plaintiff or others.
California Proposition 14 was a November 1964 initiative ballot measure that amended the California state constitution to nullify the 1963 Rumford Fair Housing Act, thereby allowing property sellers, landlords and their agents to openly discriminate on ethnic grounds when selling or letting accommodations, as they had been permitted to before 1963.
As the author, Assemblyman Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, said during testimony Wednesday, more than 100 human rights groups, including ACLU California Action and ACCE Action, a statewide pro ...
The California Civil Rights Department sued two landlords, alleging they discriminated against a Section 8 tenant. It was the first such suit the department brought.
The Unruh Civil Rights Act (colloquially the "Unruh Act") is an expansive 1959 California law that prohibits any business in California from engaging in unlawful discrimination against all persons (consumers) within California's jurisdiction, where the unlawful discrimination is in part based on a person's sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, age, disability, medical ...
California Fair Employment and Housing Act [8] Unruh Civil Rights Act; California Voting Rights Act; CROWN Act (2019) Colorado Colorado Constitution, Article II, §29 (1973) CROWN Act (2020) Connecticut Connecticut Constitution, Article I, §20 (1974) CROWN Act (2021) Homeless Bill of Rights; John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of Connecticut (2023 ...
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