1997 S HR & R - Cooperative Agreement with US Dept of Housing and Urban Development

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25 S (e) contain a provision that states that the agreement shall be made public unless the complainant and respondent otherwise agree and the authorized representative of the agency determines that disclosure is not required to further the purposes of the State or local agency; (1) Examples of circumstances that may result in partial disclosure or nondisclosure of a conciliation agreement : • Sexual harassment allegations that may be embarassing or humiliating to the parties; • discrimination based on a physical or mental disability that the complainant may not want disclosed; or • complainant is a resident in a home for battered women who may be concerned about her safety if the agreement were publicized. (f) contain a provision which will allow the agency to conduct compliance reviews of all settlements and conciliation agreements or other orders issued to resolve the discriminatory housing practice; and (g) include language that states when other civil rights authorities have been violated, the conciliation agreement does not prohibit HUD from taking further action against the respondent under applicable rules and regulations of the other civil rights authorities . When the agency has been notified that a complaint is subject to concurrent processing, the agency will not execute an agreement on the fair housing act violations unless HUD concurs with the terms and conditions . SEE FUND ELIGIBILITY For SEE funds acceptance, successful conciliation must also provide for (1) monetary relief ; (2) monitoring; and, (3) reporting. If these three provisions are not included in the executed conciliation agreement, it will not count towards the 10% requirement for successful conciliation agreements (see 111 . 305 (3) ) .