City of Beacon - Commission on Human Relations

554 Main Street
Beacon, NY 12508

Regular meetings held the first Wednesday of each month at 7:30 PM
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Fonda Muhammad

Sarah Uzelac

The Commission’s primary objectives are:

• To create and foster a community climate
  in which better understanding and relation-
  ships among various racial, religious and
  ethnic groups can easily and naturally take
  place.
  
  
• To recommend and conduct educational
  programs and trainings that will increase
  understanding and assist the residents of
  Beacon in securing the rights which are
  theirs by virtue of residing in America
  and New York State.
  
  
• To inquire into incidents of tension and
  conflicts among or between various racial,
  religious, and nationality groups.
  
  
• To enlist the cooperation and participation
  of the various racial, religious and
  nationality groups, community, industry
  and labor organizations, media or mass
  communication, fraternal and benevolent
  associations, and other groups in an
  educational campaign devoted to fostering
  mutual esteem, justice, and equity and
  opening new opportunities into all phases
  of community life, thereby enhancing
  the quality of life for all individuals who
  reside in the City of Beacon.
  
  
• To encourage and stimulate agencies
  under the jurisdiction of Beacon City
  Government to take such action as that
  fulfill the purposes of the Commission.
  
  
• To receive complaints of alleged discrimi-
  nation; seek a just solution locally; and to
  seek active assistance of the Division of
  Human Rights of the State of New York
  and the Dutchess County Human Rights
  Commission in the solution of complaints
  that fall within their jurisdiction.