Article: The Hartford Courant, Conn., Stan Simpson column: CHRO Inspires No Faith.(Column)

Byline: Stan Simpson

Dec. 2--R. Hamisi Ingram made an observation two years ago that still gnaws at me. That was when he was hired to run the nation's oldest civil rights agency -- the state Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities

Ingram was flabbergasted at the wholesale gutting of CHRO's contract compliance division. Imagine a police chief seeing no handcuffs for his officers. In the name of budget cuts, his predecessor, Cynthia Watts Elder, was de-clawing an agency formed in 1943 to investigate housing and workplace discrimination and to monitor state agencies' hiring of minorities and women. Yet, 60 years later, the compliance division was dismantled ...

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