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Title: Commission passes new Human Rights law (in Miami Beach)
Post by: Allamakee on January 22, 2010, 03:36:39 AM
Commission passes new Human Rights law
The Miami Herald
by David Smiley
January 21, 2010

http://www.miamiherald.com/488/story/1432870.html?storylink=fbuser (http://www.miamiherald.com/488/story/1432870.html?storylink=fbuser)

The City Commission last week voted to update and rename its 1992 Human Relations ordinance, agreeing to a new process for dealing with discrimination complaints, language protecting the city's transgender population and stiff penalties, including up to $15,000 in fines, for those found by the city to be guilty of discrimination.