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Civil Rights: Laws & Links
On this page:
| Legal Documents | Organizations & General Info|

Legal Documents

• Laws Enforced By The EEOC
  • Title VII
  • Equal Pay Act
  • Age Discrimination in Employment Act
  • Rehabilitation Act
  • Titles I and V of the ADA
  • The 1991 Civil Rights Act
• Policy Guidelines from the EEOC
• Regulations of the EEOC
• Iowa Civil Rights Act
  • My Clickable Iowa Civil Rights Act - Entire Act online. Click on section to go there.
  • Another Iowa Civil Rights Act - No section bookmarks thus its harder to use BUT it is the "official internet version".
  • Iowa Civil Rights Act - Download a ZIP version in text format. Not viewable on line. From my FTP site.
• The rules of the Iowa Civil Rights Commission
  • Most commonly used and cited rules as selected by me. On-line hypertext format
  • Complete rules online - From the commission.
  • PDF Iowa Civil Rights Rules
    
• The Iowa Civil Rights Commission has added a collection of civil rights cases from the Iowa Supreme Court and the Iowa Court of Appeals. The collection goes back over ten years.
• ^newCalculate the binomial online - put in n for n, o for k and p for p. Be carfeul its math!
• Disabilities Act, Rules, Etc.
  • Text of the ADA
  • Text of the ADA - I love the URL name for this so I list it.
  • The comprehensive ADA document center. This site includes the full text of EEOC and DOJ rules and technical assistance manuals.
  • The Justice Departments ADA home page. You can also find technical assistance advisory letters written by the Civil Rights Division regarding ADA questions.
  • ^newDepartment of Labor library
  • President's Committee for Employment of Persons with Disabilities has a large document site
  • Architectural & Transportation Compliance Board's new ADA Accessibility guidelines.
  • ADA links from the Iowa Department of Education
  • ADA Technical Assistance
• The text of the 1991 Civil Rights Act in Zip Format
• The US DOJ employment discrimination site
• Complaints, briefs and settlements ^updated by the United States Department of Justice
• EEOC Amicus briefs^new - searchable
• Articles on taxation of settlements^new
• DOL Library^new - has the dictionary of occupational titles
• OFCCP ALJ Deskbook^new
• HUD
• Cornell's Employment Discrimination Topic
• Cornell's Civil Rights Topic
• Prof. Russ Runkel's Labor & Employment Law Page - Has sample and you can send for newsletter by e-mail.
• Iowa Employment Law Letter - from well known Iowa employment practitioner Greg Naylor
• On line forms of the Iowa Civil Rights Commission. Including a complaint form. The complaint form must be filled out, printed, then signed and delivered to the Commission. Purely electronic submission is not available. Fax filing is allowed.

Organizations and General Info

• AbleData - info for persons with disabilities
• ^newThe ADA Project - covers Iowa.  Information sources.
• Trace Center info on accessability and assistive technology
• AIDS information from the CDC
• Architectural & Transportation Compliance Board - has the proposed new ADA Accessibility guidelines.
• Association of Retarded Citizens (the ARC) has ADA info too
• Better Business Bureau has ADA information tailored to specific businesses and how to avoid ADA consultant scams.
• Cedar Falls Human Rights Commission - link appears broken but it may be up again
• Center for Applied Technology - runs "Bobby" which assures web page accessibility.
• Central Iowa Center for Independent Living
• Civil Rights Links - emphasis on civil rights, e.g., discrimination issues
• Civil Rights Organization Listing - tons of nice links to civil rights/liberties sites. Like ACLU, Amnesty International etc
• Disability resources
• More Disability resources
• ^newEducation Department Office of Civil Rights
• The EEOC - including legal info, phone list, and general publications
• Fair housing issues. Don't forget HUD and the Iowa office for HUD.
• The Homestead - adult living center for people with autism
• Human Resource & Labor Law Links
• Illinois-Iowa Center for Independent Living
• Iowa Assistive Technology Home Page
• Iowa Compass -overview of disability info for Iowa
• Iowa Department for the Blind
• Iowa City Human Rights Commission
• Iowa Commission for Deaf Services
• Iowa Commission on Latino Affairs
• Iowa Commission for Persons with Disabilities
• Iowa Commission on the Status of African Americans
• Iowa Commission on the Status of Women
• Iowa Latino Directory
• The home page for the Job Accomodation Network
• United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
• The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
• The NAACP home page
• National Employment Lawyers Association
• NOW - the national site
• National Urban League
• Native Americans Rights Fund
• OFCCP - has posters
• People for the American Way
• The President's Committee for Employment of Persons with Disabilities - check out the document site for lots of pamphlets and other disability information.
• Rob's Civil Rights Page - both civil liberties and civil rights (discrimination) links
• Senior's Net - links to over 5000 sites of interest to those over 50
• Sioux City Human Rights Commission
• Waterloo Commission on Human Rights
• Workers Have Rights Too - an Iowa organization with much practical know how
• Yahoo's disabilities links

To suggest a link or to report a problem with any of the links I have already please e-mail me at Iowalawweb@aol.com

Latest Update: 6/21/02