ANCHORAGE — Alaska’s human rights commission has reversed an earlier policy and now is only investigating LGBTQ+ discrimination complaints related to workplace discrimination and not for other categories like housing and financing.
An Alaska commission has reversed a policy that once promised equal protections for the LGBTQ in most categories of discrimination. Only workplace complaints will now be investigated
On the advice of the state’s attorney general, Alaska’s civil rights agency quietly deleted language promising equal protections for LGBTQ Alaskans against most categories of discrimination, and it began refusing to investigate complaints.