Office for Civil Rights

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The Office for Civil Rights is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services responsible for enforcing civil rights, privacy, and nondiscrimination laws in health and human services programs.

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All labels observed (7)

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf civil rights enforcement agency
federal agency
abbreviation OCR
collaboratesWith Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Civil Rights Division
surface form: Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
country United States of America
surface form: United States
enforces Age Discrimination Act of 1975
surface form: Age Discrimination Act of 1975 (as applied to HHS-funded programs)

HIPAA Breach Notification Rule
surface form: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act breach notification rule

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
surface form: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act privacy rule

HIPAA Security Rule
surface form: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act security rule

Affordable Care Act
surface form: Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act

Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (as applied to HHS-funded programs)
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
surface form: Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (as applied to HHS-funded programs)

federal conscience and religious freedom protections in health care (within HHS jurisdiction)
engagesIn outreach and education on civil rights and privacy protections in health care
focusesOn civil rights in health care
health information privacy
nondiscrimination in federally assisted health and human services programs
handles complaints alleging discrimination in HHS-funded programs
complaints alleging violations of HIPAA privacy and security rules
headquartersLocation Washington, D.C.
issues guidance on HIPAA compliance
guidance on civil rights and nondiscrimination in health programs
jurisdiction federal health and human services programs in the United States
languageOfWork English
legalForm federal executive branch agency component
mayEnter resolution agreements with corrective action plans
mayImpose civil monetary penalties for certain HIPAA violations
mission to ensure equal access to and protect the privacy and security of health and human services
oversightOf HHS-funded health care providers and programs
HIPAA business associates
HIPAA-covered entities
state and local agencies receiving HHS financial assistance
parentAgency United States Department of Health and Human Services
partOf United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
surface form: Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services
provides technical assistance to covered entities and recipients of HHS funds
regulates use and disclosure of protected health information under HIPAA
responsibleFor enforcement of civil rights laws in health and human services programs
enforcement of federal health information privacy laws
enforcement of nondiscrimination laws in health and human services programs
sector health and human services
subordinateTo United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
surface form: Secretary of Health and Human Services
typeOfJurisdiction civil administrative enforcement
website https://www.hhs.gov/ocr

How these facts were elicited

The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.

Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Office for Civil Rights
Description of subject: The Office for Civil Rights is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services responsible for enforcing civil rights, privacy, and nondiscrimination laws in health and human services programs.

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act enforcedBy Office for Civil Rights
this entity surface form: Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
HIPAA Breach Notification Rule enforcedBy Office for Civil Rights
this entity surface form: HHS Office for Civil Rights
HIPAA Enforcement Rule enforcedBy Office for Civil Rights
this entity surface form: HHS Office for Civil Rights
HITECH Act administeredBy Office for Civil Rights
this entity surface form: Office for Civil Rights (HHS)
HIPAA Security Rule enforcedBy Office for Civil Rights
this entity surface form: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights
Public Law 104-191 enforcedBy Office for Civil Rights
this entity surface form: Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services supervises Office for Civil Rights
this entity surface form: Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services
Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs oversees Office for Civil Rights
this entity surface form: Office of Civil Rights (OJP)