Lesley Payne interviews Joshua V. Barr about growing up in South Carolina and moving to Des Moines, Iowa. Joshua is the Director of the Des Moines Civil and Human Rights Commission. The mission of the organization is to advance justice, promote equality and ensure the protection of human rights for all people in Des Moines through investigation, education, advocacy and community engagement. The Commission is charged with providing a "Public Service" to the community and is supported as part of City Government. They are an Impartial Investigative Agency, which seeks to determine through investigation, if a person was treated unfairly in violation of the City Code they enforce. The organization is community driven. They want to see and hear you at events. You can click the link to their website for the most up-to-date information. If you have questions you can send them to humanrights@dmgov.org.
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