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Professor Waterhouse Talks about Voluntary Compliance in Municipal, County Discrimination Protections
04/06/2015
Professor Carlton Waterhouse talked about the human rights ordinances in place in some cities and counties in Indiana, pointing out that the voluntary compliance measure in these ordinances renders them essentially meaningless. He was interviewed for a news story that appeared in the April 4 edition of the Indianapolis Star.
The voluntary compliance portion of the ordinances means “It becomes more like a suggestion,” Professor Waterhouse said in the news story. “It becomes more like an aspiration, a hope. It would only be meaningful if a person is claiming they did not discriminate, and they seek to show they did not discriminate by some voluntary process.”
Professor Waterhouse is a Dean's Fellow at IU McKinney, and teaches property, hazardous waste law, environmental law, administrative law, and a seminar in law and justice.
