Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, among other things, establishes the Civil Rights Department and authorizes it to receive, investigate, conciliate, mediate, and prosecute complaints alleging various civil rights violations, including violations of provisions regarding individuals with disabilities.
Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and implement a system of complaint processing, known as the Uniform Complaint Procedures, for specified educational programs, and requires the State Department of Education to review those regulations pertaining to uniform complaint procedures for specified types of complaints, including those that allege unlawful discrimination, harassment, intimidation, or bullying against any protected group, as provided. Existing law requires the department to, on or before March 31, 2019, commence rulemaking proceedings to revise those regulations, as necessary, to conform to specified provisions.
Existing law, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex Disparities Reduction Act, requires the Civil Rights Department, among other specified state entities, in the course of collecting demographic data directly or by contract as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of Californians, to collect voluntary self-identification information pertaining to sexual orientation, gender identity, and variations in sex characteristics/intersex status, as specified.
This bill would require the Civil Rights Department and the State Department of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to collect, for a complaint received, certain demographic information, including, ethnicity, race, and gender of the individual submitting the complaint, and certain information related to the complaint, including, among other things, a description of the complaint received. The bill would require those state agencies to publish the compiled information on their internet websites and to transmit the data to the Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery, which would be established as provided by SB 518 of the 2025–26 Regular Session of the Legislature, for creation and publication of dashboards, as specified.
Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.
This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.

Statutes affected:
AB 935: 8310 GOV
02/19/25 - Introduced: 8310 GOV
03/24/25 - Amended Assembly: 8310 GOV