Civil Rights Division
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The Civil Rights Division is a branch of the U.S. Department of Justice responsible for enforcing federal laws that prohibit discrimination and protect civil rights.
All labels observed (12)
Statements (83)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
civil rights enforcement agency
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division of the United States Department of Justice ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction |
United States territories
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surface form:
U.S. territories
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| employer | federal civil service employees ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
anti-discrimination law
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civil rights ⓘ disability rights ⓘ education discrimination ⓘ employment discrimination ⓘ hate crimes enforcement ⓘ housing discrimination ⓘ human trafficking enforcement ⓘ institutional conditions of confinement ⓘ language access rights ⓘ police misconduct ⓘ religious freedom protection ⓘ voting rights ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Administrative Management Section
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Appellate Section ⓘ Coordination and Review Section ⓘ Criminal Section ⓘ Civil Rights Division self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Disability Rights Section
Educational Opportunities Section ⓘ Employment Litigation Section ⓘ Federal Coordination and Compliance Section ⓘ Front Office ⓘ Housing and Civil Enforcement Section ⓘ Immigrant and Employee Rights Section ⓘ Civil Rights Division self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Office of the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights
Policy and Strategy Section ⓘ Special Litigation Section ⓘ Voting Section ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| industry |
civil rights enforcement
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law enforcement ⓘ public administration ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States government
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surface form:
federal government of the United States
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| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalAuthority |
Americans with Disabilities Act
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 ⓘ Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act ⓘ Equal Educational Opportunities Act ⓘ Fair Housing Act of 1968 ⓘ
surface form:
Fair Housing Act
Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act ⓘ Help America Vote Act ⓘ Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act ⓘ National Voter Registration Act ⓘ Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act ⓘ Title IX ⓘ
surface form:
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (as enforced through coordination and review)
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ⓘ Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ⓘ Trafficking Victims Protection Act ⓘ Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (civil enforcement in certain contexts) ⓘ Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act ⓘ Voting Rights Act of 1965 ⓘ |
| legalForm | federal government agency component ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | District of Columbia ⓘ |
| missionStatement | to enforce federal statutes prohibiting discrimination and to uphold the civil and constitutional rights of all people in the United States ⓘ |
| officeHeldBy | Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | United States Department of Justice ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Department of Justice ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Assistant United States Attorney General for the Civil Division
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surface form:
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights
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| responsibleFor |
addressing patterns or practices of police misconduct
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enforcing disability rights laws ⓘ enforcing employment discrimination laws against state and local government employers ⓘ enforcing federal civil rights laws ⓘ enforcing federal housing discrimination laws ⓘ enforcing federal voting rights protections ⓘ enforcing language access requirements for recipients of federal financial assistance ⓘ filing statements of interest and amicus briefs in civil rights cases ⓘ investigating and prosecuting hate crimes ⓘ prosecuting human trafficking offenses ⓘ protecting religious exercise and religious land use rights ⓘ protecting the rights of institutionalized persons ⓘ |
| usesMethod |
civil litigation
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consent decrees ⓘ criminal prosecution ⓘ investigation ⓘ mediation and settlement agreements ⓘ technical assistance and guidance ⓘ |
| website | https://www.justice.gov/crt ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
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Subject: Civil Rights Division Description of subject: The Civil Rights Division is a branch of the U.S. Department of Justice responsible for enforcing federal laws that prohibit discrimination and protect civil rights.
Referenced by (45)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice
this entity surface form:
Civil Rights Division (U.S. Department of Justice)
this entity surface form:
Disability Rights Section
this entity surface form:
Office of the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights
this entity surface form:
Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice
subject surface form:
Criminal Section (U.S. DOJ Civil Rights Division)
this entity surface form:
Civil Rights Division (U.S. Department of Justice)
this entity surface form:
U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
this entity surface form:
Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice
this entity surface form:
Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice
subject surface form:
Office for Civil Rights (HHS)
this entity surface form:
Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
this entity surface form:
Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice
Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices
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partOf
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Civil Rights Division
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this entity surface form:
Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice
subject surface form:
Immigrant and Employee Rights Section
this entity surface form:
Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice
subject surface form:
Immigrant and Employee Rights Section
this entity surface form:
U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
subject surface form:
Federal Coordination and Compliance Section
subject surface form:
Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act
this entity surface form:
DOJ Civil Rights Division
subject surface form:
Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act
this entity surface form:
Civil Rights Division Special Litigation Section
United States Department of Justice investigations into the King assassination
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conductedBy
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Civil Rights Division
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this entity surface form:
Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice
this entity surface form:
United States Department of Justice Civil Rights components
this entity surface form:
U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
this entity surface form:
U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
this entity surface form:
Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice
subject surface form:
Civil Rights Division (Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office)
this entity surface form:
U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division