Examples of What Could be Discrimination in Public Services
- City inspectors punish people of color more severely for city code
violations than they do for white people.
- A county healthcare service does not provide a language interpreter
for someone with limited English speaking ability, even though that
person repeatedly asked for an interpreter.
- A person is the target of racial profiling. Racial profiling
happens when police use race, color and/or national origin as the only reason to suspect
a person has done something illegal.
- Police arrest a deaf man and refuse to provide an interpreter to allow
him to communicate with them.
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