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HRC Monthly Meeting

Orange County · Human Relations Commission
Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Regular meeting Civil rights and nondiscriminationAppointments and personnelArts and public artEthics and transparencyHistoric preservationParks and recreation

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What's on this agenda

The longest item on the agenda is forty-five minutes for all commissioners to score submissions for the Pauli Murray Awards. The commission also takes the Blackwood Farms marker, sets its August retreat date, and hears committee reports on outreach and community events.

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Meeting recap

What happened, drawn from the records published after the meeting. Minutes

Scoring award submissions as a full board, in the meeting, with three quarters of an hour set aside for it, is the commission doing in public what many bodies do by email. The awards are named for a Durham-born civil rights lawyer, priest and poet whose legal thinking shaped both the desegregation and the sex discrimination cases that followed.

The commission is also short a secretary and carrying membership vacancies, and it fixes the date of the retreat that produced its subcommittee charters and ten-year vision - 22 August.

Its public comment rule is the same at every meeting, and worth restating: speakers are asked not to share personal identifying information or details of an active complaint, investigation or case, and the chair may redirect anyone who does to the complaint process, so the meeting does not become the hearing.

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Orange County's own rules for public comment — check them before you rely on anything here.

Agenda items (7)

Staff or committee report · 3Discussion item · 2Procedural · 1Appointment · 1
  1. 6 Public Comment (Non-Agenda Items)
    Procedural Civil rights and nondiscriminationEthics and transparency
    Ten minutes on human relations, civil rights and community conditions, with speakers asked not to raise active complaints or identifying details.
  2. 7 County Update — Office of Civil Rights and Civic Life
    Staff or committee report Civil rights and nondiscrimination
    An update from the director of the county's Office of Civil Rights and Civic Life.
  3. 8 Action Item: Blackwood Farms Marker Update
    Discussion item Civil rights and nondiscriminationHistoric preservationParks and recreation
    An update on the commemorative marker at Blackwood Farms.
  4. 9 Executive Committee Report
    Appointment Appointments and personnel
    A secretary vacancy and other membership vacancies, and setting the August retreat date.
  5. 10 Committee Reports
    Staff or committee report Arts and public artCivil rights and nondiscrimination
    Outreach and engagement on tabling and contact with county organisations; community events covering the Pauli Murray Awards and community conversations.
  6. 12 Announcements & Future Agenda Items
    Discussion item Civil rights and nondiscrimination
    A social justice vision item and events from May through July.
  7. 13 Action Item: Scoring of PMA Submissions
    Staff or committee report Civil rights and nondiscrimination
    A social justice vision and events from May to July.

Agenda changes

What moved between published versions of this agenda. Item numbers shift constantly as things are inserted, so only genuine additions and removals are listed.

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