Palm Beach County Bar Association
to Consider Anti-Discrimination Policy

Meeting last Friday, the Diversity and Gender Sensitivity Committee of the Palm Beach County Bar Association unanimously recommended that the organization's Board of Directors adopt an inclusive policy prohibiting discrimination in employment and membership.

If adopted, the policy would provide:

The Palm Beach County Bar Association is committed to a policy of inclusion and diversity with respect to the composition of its staff, its membership, the chairs and members of its committees, and its officers. Consistent with this policy of promoting inclusiveness and diversity, the Association does not discriminate against any individual because of such individual's actual or perceived race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, familial status, or age.

"In working with Bar President Meenu Sasser on the association's And Justice for All project, the Palm Beach County Human Rights Council discovered that the bar association did not have an anti-discrimination policy," said Council President and Founder Rand Hoch, a retired judge who serves on the Palm Beach County Bar Association's Diversity and Gender Sensitivity Committee. "Committee Chair Tanique Lee recommended that be changed,"

The Board of Directors is expected to take up the Committee's recommendation later this year.

The Palm Beach County Human Rights Council, Inc. is dedicated to
ending discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression.

The Council promotes equality through education, advocacy, direct action,
impact litigation, and community outreach.