Nurse asks about testing and commission-initiated enforcement
Nurse asks about CCHR testing numbers and what enforcement followed. Rivera says CCHR has about three part-time testers and a supervisor, and disability testing dipped while salary transparency and fair chance housing testing grew.
Okay, I want to just touch on testing and commission-initiated enforcement.
We've talked about testing quite a lot this year, so I'm not going to go too hard onto it.
In the FY26 report, CCHR's tests included 197 disability claims in public accommodations, 59 in housing and none in employment, down from 390 disability claims in FY25.
What did those tests find and what enforcement followed?
Thank you, Chair Nurse.
So the test results, we'd have to pull specifics on each jurisdiction.
I would be happy to follow up with that.
But what we are able to do with our small testing team right now, we have about, I believe, three part-time testers and a direct full-time supervisor.
They are testing across all jurisdictions, right, and across all protected classes.
And so while there has been a dip in disability-focused testing, that's been in large part because of other protected classes that we've really been responsive to, particularly around salary transparency.
Fair chance housing as well has been a really big focus as we are trying to get individuals to report criminal history violations in housing applications, which we're also seeing as an overlap, again, with other protected classes as well.