Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Phillips, his most serious error was that he got only verbal permission for his housing scheme from a zoning official, who now denies everything. When the neighbors yowled that the caboose violated the zoning code ban on any "eyesore or nuisance" in Miami, the local zoning board bucked the complaint to the county zoning department, which offered the suggestion that the caboose be painted green, hidden by shrubs and used only as a playhouse. That pleased neither side, so the case ascended to the zoning board of appeals, which ordered Phillips to remove the caboose within six months. Taking...
...individual denied equal access to a publicly owned facility, such as a park, swimming pool, hospital or library-but not a school-could file a complaint with the Attorney General. If the Attorney General decreed the individual unable to afford his own suit or in fear of physical or economic harm, the Attorney General could institute a civil suit to force state or local officials to desegregate such a facility...
...instruct school officials and teachers in how to deal with desegregation problems. The commission could supply federal grants to school boards to train teachers and hire consultants on such problems. The Attorney General could institute a suit when tax-supported college students or parents of schoolchildren filed a complaint that they were being denied admission to a school or college because of race, religion or national origin...
...bill would create an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that could assist local groups in eliminating job discrimination, make technical studies on the subject, offer conciliation service when requested by employers. Either an individual or a member of the commission could file a complaint of job discrimination, and the commission would investigate the charge and notify the persons or organizations against whom the charge was brought. If two of the five commissioners found that the charge was valid, and the efforts at getting voluntary compliance failed, the commission could file a federal civil suit. If the court found that an unlawful...
Under the Dirksen procedure, the commission would investigate a complaint in secret and, in those states or cities that have a Fair Employment Practices law, notify the local authorities, who would have 90 days to remedy the practice. If they failed, the commission would have 90 days to seek voluntary compliance. If that too failed-or there was no local law-it would notify the person who filed the claim, and that person could then file a federal civil suit. The court could, if it wished, delay the suit for another 90 days to let local officials or the federal...