All right.

I would like to call the human relations committee back to order.

I believe we had quorum at the time of our recess.

Yes, sir.

You do have quorum.

All members were present.

All members are present.

Perfect.

And with that, is there any need to move for remote participation?

Yes, sir.

We have changed uh position for Commissioner McCasco.

She is now remote, so let's do a remote participation roll call.

And as a commissioner Trevor moves for remote participation, seconded by Commissioner Vez second by Commissioner Aguilar.

It's not on this committee, sir.

Second by Commissioner Vasquez, as I intended.

Yes.

Maybe please have a roll call on that.

Thank you.

Commissioner Naya, your vote.

Commissioner Naya's eye.

Commissioner McCaskill.

Aye.

Commissioner McCaskill is a commissioner Miller.

Commissioner Miller.

Is absent.

Commissioner Stamps.

Thank you.

Is I for this participation?

Thank you.

Commissioner Trevor.

Aye.

Thank you, Commissioner Vasquez.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Aye.

Chairman, you have six ayes, one absent for Commissioner Miller.

The motion passes.

Only one absence.

And with that, do we have any registered public speakers?

You have uh two present in the room.

George Blakemore and Zoe Lee.

Please be reminded of the public speaking rules.

You have three minutes to address the body.

Thank you.

Uh Honorable Chairman.

The Human Relations Commission.

All right.

I can go way back with the Human Relations Commission.

I thought it would be effective.

I will make complaints.

Race or complaints.

Uh, how human beings relate to each other.

Racism.

This is a very important relationship.

Now they they have this lady, this Hispanic lady used to be of the Human Relations Commission of the City of Chicago.

And she's gone now.

Ken Dunn is uh uh is is the actor and and some of the people over there they they was very unhappy with with her.

Mr.

Blake Moore, the the state human relation, and they try to bar you out of there about 30 or 40 years ago.

They good at doing things.

Uh rolling letters, don't let Mr.

Blake Moore.

Uh-huh.

They got the state human relation, they got the city human relations, they got the county human relations, and all of them are connected.

And and the illegal immigrants are going filing complaints, and they're not even citizens.

Not even citizens.

So I'm very astute uh with government.

And I've a few minutes ago, I was hollering.

Leave that, leave that lady alone.

Leave that alone, you lady alone.

They should have had enough sense to not bother her.

Oh, while someone from the public is speaking.

Uh-huh.

Yeah, y'all don't know me.

One minute.

I've been abused.

Not only you being abused, Mr.

Blake Moore, your black people are being abused by these Hispanics.

And not only don't talk about these Hispanics, these black folks are mean to each other.

Oh, yes.

Mean to each other.

These Hispanics help their people.

They work together.

They worked together.

You wouldn't dare never.

They wouldn't allow it.

Like you all guess it's happy as to be when the chair dragged me out.

Hello, George Blake Moore.

Get it.

Uh-huh.

If I can't read or write, you suppose they have me.

They help their people.

They're being in power.

We got black faces in high place.

Time has expired.

Next speaker, Zoe Lee.

They help each other.

You're absolutely right, George.

The Hispanics, they will stick together.

And Asians will, the Jews will.

We are the only ones that do not.

They gotta find is something wrong with something.

Ah, is this?

It's that.

No, like that's why Chicago Fist Red is here because all of the y'all, y'all um racist governor, JB Pritzer said the other day to political that he was proud to slander the Lincoln.

And uh we said this is Landon Lincoln, and we have had the most black uh representation coming out of Illinois.

Of course.

But then in 2008, on an FBI wiretap, he called Secretary of State Jesse White, a qualified vetted African American, and 10 years later, y'all voted him in.

Like this is the leadership, the Negro leadership we're dealing with in the Illinois.

Y'all got to go.

Ain't no way in the world he should be on his third term when he calls Secretary of State.

Jesse White, a qualified vetted African American.

Like, it's something wrong with y'all.

Like literally, something, but because y'all all are sellouts.

Y'all have paid, y'all, y'all working for y'all's pension.

Y'all don't care about nobody else but y'all sales.

And you and you, you got this man calling Trump racist all day.

What is a qualified vetted African American?

Please, because somebody give me a definition of what a qualified vetted African American is.

JB Pritzer said this.

Governor JB Pritzer on a wiretap.

2008, 10 years later, y'all made him the governor of Illinois.

And what does he do because he feels bad because he called Jesse White a qualified vetted African American?

I'm gonna go and uh name this building after him.

I'm gonna go name this building after him, I'm gonna go name this building after him.

He called him a qualified veteran.

That's what y'all are.

Qualified vetted African American minutes.

That's why y'all stay in these seats.

That's why y'all can't help nobody else.

That's why Chicago flips red is here.

That's why the world is listening to us.

Ain't nobody getting it.

Ain't nobody getting that governor's seat until somebody talk about the South Side and why they're stealing all the property over there because about Lake Michigan and y'all letting it happen because y'all don't care.

The elders, y'all going back lying to them in the community meetings, but they listening.

30 seconds.

So I mean, at the end of the day, we gotta do better.

I'm just saying, y'all gotta repent.

We gotta do better.

I mean, God forgives.

God forgives.

So y'all have the chance to make it right.

I don't hold no grudges, but I'm gonna keep talking about the hypocrisy up in the in the in the public sector because it's my tax dollar until y'all sit down and figure out how to be public servants.

Thank you.

Chairman, that concludes your list of speakers for this meeting.

Thank you.

And first we have item 26, 1429, meeting minutes from our last meeting on January 14th, 2026.

Commissioner Anaya moves to approve this item.

Seconded by Commissioner Stamps.

Any discussion?

If not, all those in favor, signifying by voting aye.

All opposed, nay.

And the opinion of the chair, the eyes have it.

Next, we have 26, 11, 13, the 2026 first quarter report from the Department of Human Rights and Ethics.

Commissioner or Vice Chair Trevor moves to receive and file this item, seconded by Commissioner Arnaya.

Can we please hear from a representative from the Department of Human Rights and Ethics?

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

Great.

Um Jennifer King, director for Cook County's Department of Human Rights and Ethics, here to present our first quarterly report for fiscal year 2026.

I do want to note that I'm having connectivity issues, so I cannot connect and drop the um report in, but I do have printed copies with me.

We will pass those around.

Thank you.

Gil or Joe, can you grab those, please?

Thank you.

Thank you.

So to begin, I'll note that the first quarter, of course, covers December 2025 through February of 2026.

Um, the total number of inquiries for the first quarter are 260, and the total number of new complaints filed was 112.

I also want to note that the total number of cases pending, total active cases pending or investigations for that first quarter was 240.

Um of the 240, 112 of those uh account for the 100 and um 112 of those were new complaints filed, while the others were remaining investigations that remained open from the last fiscal year.

I do want to draw some attention to the total number of complaints filed in fiscal year 24 and 25, that there was a stark increase from 148 total new complaints filed in FY24 in comparison to the 321 total new complaints filed in 25.

Um we're kind of monitoring um for the next quarter or the current quarter that we're in to see if this will continue on as a trend.

Of those closed, 68 were completed within 180 days, and 18 of those cases were determined to be duplicates, and those include complaints that are uh substantially similar in terms of the complaint of the claims that they are made that are made.

There's a breakdown of the inquiries of the 280 inquiries for uh the first quarter, the majority uh relate to paid leave with 72 of those inquiries being paid leave.

Uh note that we've added some additional categories to limit the other um uh category categorization of uh inquiries filed here.

Some of those include wrong number, which account for 38 of those, and of course, we also have a number of complaints that are or inquiries received in relation to the uh residential landlord tenant ordinance.

Um those are account for 28 of those inquiries for the complaints filed by type for the first quarter, uh the majority are paid leave, employment, and housing with fairly equal numbers across those three complaint types, and then of course we provided a chart of the um total uh new complaints filed by type uh and those uh claims or bases of discrimination that were included there for the paid leave complaints.

We've added some additional specificity to our report uh for this fiscal year, so uh including the claims or bases of discrimination for some of our common complaint types.

The first, if you will um look at page 12 at the bottom, there's uh paid leave complaints filed.

The bases or the claims uh in relation to those complaints are uh kind of span uh the gambit there, but uh the majority of them or the most common claim that was made is in relation to the failure to use accrued paid leave as required by the ordinance with 17 claims made for those uh complaints that were filed in the first quarter, and of the housing complaints filed, uh also kind of across the board, and note that people can include multiple claims or multiple bases of discrimination in the complaints that are filed, um, but of those, the majority were um housing or the most common housing status with five uh bases or five complaints, including that basis, followed closely behind by national origin race, retaliation, and source of income.

And finally, for the housing complaints filed uh by municipality of the respondent, the majority were Chicago with eight complaints filed there.

And note that those some of those, of course, would include the complaints filed in relation to discrimination based on um criminal history, which of course is within the jurisdiction of the commission.

Uh and finally, the uh total or the most common uh basis of dismissal for investigations or closure is relation to lack of jurisdiction with 35 uh complaints um closed for that purpose.

I'm happy to answer any questions.

Thank you so much for your report.

Uh Commissioner Naya.

Thank you so much, Director.

Appreciate um the report.

So just some uh I just want to clarify the summary chart that you have.

The areas that are blue.

Um, so the case pending in quotation.

I'm sorry, in parentheses, all stages and the cases closed as duplicates.

There's no numbers for FY2024 and 25.

Does that mean that you were not tracking those, or does that mean that you didn't have any?

So it's gonna be different for the two categories.

So for cases pending at all stages, so that is the total number of cases that we're working on that were active within a given quarter.

Okay.

Um so we are going to work on providing a total that's gonna be a little different for an entire fiscal year.

So that'll be the total number of complaints handled across an entire fiscal year, which we can provide.

I think for 2025, that was around 480 or so uh complaints across the year.

Um, but we'll make sure that that figure is included going forward.

It will likely be in a separate um uh coll or role.

Okay.

And then for then really quick on that on that piece.

I think what would be really beneficial for us to do the comparison is if we have the cases pending as of the quarter that we're looking at.

So this is the first quarter for FY2026.

If we had the total amount of cases pending in FY2024 in that box, and then also um I I should say the first, yeah, the first quarter for 24 and then the first quarter for 25.

Because I think those trends would be really beneficial for commissioners to know on whether you're seeing an uptick in that quarter for a particular you know, inquiry or um investigation.

Um, just a suggestion.

Obviously, I know you all have your information, your your data point.

So, however, you want to um uh report that back, but I think for that one specifically, I would like to kind of see what that volume looks like, um, especially because again, staffing needs, etc.

Yes.

Yes, and if I can respond to that question before so yes, that is the intention going forward that so for the second quarter report, third, etc.

That you'll continue to see those totals.

Um this is a newer metric that we're adding because we note that it's not as helpful to just see just the total complaints, but not have a fuller picture of all the matters that are pending before the commission at one time.

Wonderful, thank you.

Um my second question was in regards to uh table three that's on page two.

Um so correct me if I'm mistaken, but I just want to make sure that that I'm reading this correctly.

These are the investigations in quarter one, right?

These are the numbers, so it's not inquiries, these are investigations.

Correct.

So that first the top chart um on page two is those are the inquiries by type, and then the second are the new complaints that were filed by type.

So that does not account for all the complaints that are pending before the commission, just the new ones that were filed in that quarter.

Okay, so just new not pending, not other previously pending.

Correct.

Okay, thank you.

Um, just because I want to make sure that my numbers are adding up.

Um, and then my last question is in regards to the investigations completed within 180 days.

Um these are these necessarily do not mean that this quarter they were filed, just means that it could be all together, correct?

Correct.

So any okay, perfect.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you kindly.

Any other questions from members of the committee?

Seeing none, thank you so much for your report today.

Thank you.

And with that, uh we move for a roll call vote.

Thank you.

Motion on floors to receive and file item number 1113.

Moved by Commissioner Trevor, second by Commissioner Naya.

Commissioner Naya, your vote, please.

Ma'am.

Aye.

Yeah, thank you.

Commissioner Naya is aye.

Commissioner McCasco.

McCaskill, aye.

Commissioner Miller.

Miller, aye.

Previous votes were all aye.

Commissioner Stamps.

Aye.

Thank you, ma'am.

Commissioner Trevor.

Aye.

Thank you, ma'am.

Commissioner Vasquez.

Thank you, ma'am chairman.

Aye.

Chairman, all votes are in seven ayes, zero nays.

The motion passes.

And with that, commit any other uh discussion before the committee?

Seeing none.

Commissioner Miller motions to adjourn, seconded by Commissioner Stamps.

All those in favor signify by voting aye.

All opposed, nay.

In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it.

This meeting is now adjourned.

Thank you.