Existing law makes certain evidence inadmissible in civil, criminal, and administrative proceedings.
This bill would, in a civil action or a civil or administrative proceeding under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act brought against a public employee or employer, prohibit a plaintiff or complainant from introducing evidence of a public employee's assessment, testing, admission, or acknowledgment of personal bias that was required or solicited as part of a bias mitigation training, as specified. The bill would not prohibit a plaintiff, complainant, or public employer from introducing, in an action under a civil anti-discrimination law, evidence of a public employee's admission, acknowledgment, or commission of an act or conduct of harassment, discrimination, or retaliation that occurs during a bias mitigation training which is not evidence of a public employee's assessment, testing, admission, or acknowledgment of personal bias.