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On July 13, 2011, Governor Dannel Malloy signed into law Public Act No. 11-237, An Act Concerning the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities ("C...
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- Femi Bogle-Assegai, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. State of Connecticut, Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities; and Cynthia Watts-Elder, in Her Official Capacity as Executive Director, Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, ('Chro') and Leanne Appleton, in Her Individual and Official Capacity as Director of Finance of Chro; and Donald Newton, in His Individual and Official Capacity as Chro Chief of Field Operations, Defendants-Appellees. Docket No. 05-1858-Cv., 470 F.3d 498 (2nd Cir. 2006)
Josephine Smalls Miller, Danbury, CT, (Cynthia R. Jennings, The Barrister Law Group, Hartford, CT, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.
Joseph A. ...
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Three members of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's staff will be leaving, but he said Tuesday the resignations do not represent any change in strategy in his 10-month-old administration.
Chief of Staff Timothy Bannon, Communications Director Colleen Flanagan and Operations Director Alvin Wilson are moving on, with Flanagan taking a similar position at the new Board of Regents for Higher Education and Wilson going to the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities.
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Former Superintendent of Schools Harvey B. Polansky's last day on the job was Nov. 15, 2009, but his legacy is still costing taxpayers.
The Board of Education will vote before the start of the new fiscal year, July 1, to move funds around to help pay for a $30,000 shortfall in its insurance account, which is largely attributable to two principals' state Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities complaint against the district.
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Karen Krasicky, an assistant chief under Chapman, detailed some of those remarks in a fall 2004 complaint filed with the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities: Chief Chapman is known for, and I have witnessed, his complete disregard and lack of respect for women in the workplace. ... In the aftermath of the controversial police shooting of Sean Bell and two other unarmed black men in Queens- at a time when Kelly 's approval rating was plummeting-Chapman publicly endorsed Kelly as the best police commissioner he'd ever worked for.
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By Lauren Garrison Register Staff lgarrison@nhregister.com
ANSONIA -- Police Officer Mustafa Salahuddin, who was cleared in the theft of a garden hose, claims in a new complaint to be filed with the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities that he was "constructively terminated" when the Police Department forced him to retire.
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HARTFORD, Conn. - The man who fatally shot eight co-workers at a Connecticut beer distributor told a 911 operator before he killed himself that he was avenging racism.
Omar Thornton's employer, his union and the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities all say there has never been a formal racism complaint against the Manchester company - from Thornton or anyone else.
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By Lauren Garrison Register Staff lgarrison@newhavenregister.com
ANSONIA -- A city police officer acquitted of stealing a garden hose from the department has filed a complaint with the state's Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, claiming the police chief and commissioners have conspired "to create an environment so hostile that I would choose not to return to work.
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By Michelle Tuccitto Sullo Naugatuck Valley Bureau Chief mtuccitto@newhavenregister.com
DERBY -- A deaf couple has filed complaints with the state Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, claiming Derby police should have provided them with a sign language interpreter after they got into a car accident last year.
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Esther Gaddis has been out of work since April without any health benefits, traveling back and forth to meetings before the state Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities to appeal her firing by the Community Action Agency of New Haven.
Gaddis said Wednesday she feels vindicated now that the attorney for the CAA has told the CHRO that CAA wants to settle the case.