Departmental policies and plans for implementation of the City's Affirmative Action program for hiring and promoting minority and women employees.

Correspondence to and from the City Attorney. Includes requests from City agencies for legal opinions and advice.

Employment and housing discrimination complaints filed with the Office for Civil Rights (previously the Human Rights Department). Complaints are investigated and attempts are made to reach a settlement between the parties in order to avoid taking the complaint to the courts. Records include the charge or complaint, the investigator's activity log, witness statements, findings of facts, conciliation statements, pre-determination statements, file closure memoranda, and appeal statements.

Chronological and subject correspondence of the Handicapped Services Unit in the Department of Human Resources. Records were transferred to the Human Rights Department Affirmative Action Unit in 1981.

The Human Rights Annual Reports are brief and there are not reports for every year. The 1975 report includes Affirmative Action reviews for each department. Series also include Office for Civil Rights annual reports.

Records of an office that promotes equal rights, equal opportunity and freedom from illegal discrimination.