The center, a private group and the largest of its kind in the city, has been investigating discrimination complaints since 1964.

In April 1998, the federal reverse discrimination complaint was dismissed.

A discrimination complaint was filed against her on 24 April 2003.

The department has been the subject of past discrimination complaints.

Workers with discrimination complaints are directed to an "intake room."

The bill would also enable people to take discrimination complaints against private individuals or organizations to court rather than to the commission.

This change would not apply to discrimination complaints against city agencies.

She, too, has filed a discrimination complaint with the commission.

She noted that the agency handled about 100,000 discrimination complaints a year.

A second black man, who had filed a discrimination complaint, was also promoted last year.