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6 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> CIVIL RIGHTS ORDINANCE <br /> ARTICLE I Title <br /> Sec. 1. 1 This Ordinance shall be known and may be cited as <br /> the Orange County Civil Rights Ordinance. <br /> ARTICLE II Findings of Fact, Purpose, <br /> Construction, and Severability <br /> Sec . 2 . 1 Findings of Fact <br /> (a) The Orange County Board of Commissioners created the <br /> Orange County Human Relations Commission to: ( 1) study and make <br /> recommendations concerning problems in the field of human <br /> relationships; (2) anticipate and discover practices and customs <br /> most likely to create animosity and unrest and to seek solutions to <br /> problems as they arise; (3) make recommendations designed to <br /> promote goodwill and harmony among r-aelal, ethnic, religleus, and <br /> other greups in the Geunty groups in the County irrespective of <br /> their race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, <br /> affectional preference, disability, age, marital status or status <br /> with regard to public assistance; (4) monitor complaints involving <br /> discrimination; (5) address and attempt to remedy the violence, <br /> tensions, polarization, and other harm created through the <br /> practices of discrimination, bias, hatred, and civil inequality_; <br /> and (6) promote harmonious relations within the county through <br /> hearings and due process of law; and (Change tracks <br /> 1 <br />