Illinois Department of Human Rights

Jack Hamilton

Incredibly corrupt. I was assigned a Jewish investigator, Judith Weingarten. Giess what. My complaint was against a Jewish runned company, who refused to accommodate my disability. Guess what, Judith, found no cause in my complaint. You better believe if I was Jewish, I would've gotten some justice

Dr. Shellie Locke

10/6/22 / WEDNESDAY I have 2 years ago issued a complaint with the Human Rights Division, which they have summarily dismissed. My complaint is against the Mental Health Division and associated Metro-Forensic Team Officials: Dr. Sharon Coleman-Weems, PsyD Dr. Agoritza Barczak, PsyD Dr. Tima Smith, PsyD. I formally complained about a wrongful, discriminatory Dismissal. The Dismissal contained substantiations based on blatant falsehoods reportedly presented by Dr. Tima Smith, who falsely reported that I behaved in a rude and disrespectful manner to her, vaguely indicating that I made some kind of untoward comment while interacting with her. There is no such charge in my personnel records, and this is a desperate fabricated justification to support my termination. I strongly Refute this blatant falsehood. At no time during my onboarding with the Mental Health Division, training experience, and related professional service, did I make a rude, disrespectful, negative, and/or derogatory comment(s) towards any person on the team and/or within the department, at any level, and at any time. I was polite, respectful, and faithful throughout my brief time in the division, and presented myself in a professional, Careful, and diligent manner. I wholeheartedly object to the unproven characterization of my work somehow being inferior to another Clinical Psychologist, who had been recently onboarded prior to my arrival on the team. The Human Rights Division has Not at all done what is right in my case. The HRD has wrongfully dismissed my case, compounding and obscuring the real problem of coercive, bullying, discriminatory, state-mandate defying and clique-based leadership, poorly camouflagued as true leadership. Shellie Locke, PhD Complainant

Rebel N.

There is a reason for the dysfunction: corruption reigns. Those who should protect human rights seem busy violating them and instead of addressing violations seem busy covering them up with dismissals. After waiting years, what was handed by IDHR was a dismissal. If there was nothing in the complaint, does it take years or was the time spent burying evidence, manufacturing a basis to dismiss and to deny relief? The IDHR is there to serve the people of Illinois and uphold human rights. If it can not or will not, it should not exist at all as taxpayers dollars should not be wasted on figureheads.

D K

Better off getting an attorney, we're working on a case over the course of a year, they seemed adamant, really had us going for a second... Currently, they will avoid our calls, and not respond to voice-mail. No Bueno.