Useful
Tools to Assess Agency Civil Rights
Enforcement
Under Executive
Order 12250, the
Attorney General through the Civil Rights Division reports annually to
the President "through the Director of the Office of Management and
Budget {OMB] on the progress in achieving the purposes of this Order.
This report shall include any recommendations for changes in the
implementation or enforcement of the nondiscrimination provisions of
the laws covered by this Order." see Section 1-304, Executive Order 12250.
These reports provide an annual snapshot of what Federal agencies are
doing to enforce grant related nondiscrimination statutes.
See what the Attorney General has to
say
about the state of civil rights enforcement. These reports may be
available for public
inspection. Check
with the Civil Rights Division.
It doesn't hurt to ask.
Find out if a state or local
government is getting Federal financial
assistance. You can search the single audit
data base and get an idea.
This tells you what Federal
agencies are providing assistance and also tells you something about
the assisted programs and activities covered by Federal grant related
nondiscrimination statutes. This also tells you what agencies
would have jurisdiction over any complaints alleging discrimination in
those funded programs and activities.