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1. How does the Civil Rights Commission achieve its purpose?

• It recommends ways and means of initiating and improving municipal programs for coordination of community efforts to address problems involving tensions in the community
• It develops community education programs that foster open and effective dialogues about race relations.
• It makes recommendations to the Princeton Mayor and Council for the development of policies, procedures, and programs that will aid in the prevention and elimination and discrimination in Princeton.
• It takes an active role in promoting and protecting civil rights by either initiating community dialogues and/or collaborating with other organizations to co-sponsor relevant programs and events.
• It provides an informal mechanism to resolve complaints through a facilitated dialogue by any persons claiming to be aggrieved by discrimination. Voluntary non-binding conflict resolution.

2. How can the Civil Rights Commission help me?

• The Civil Rights Commission can work with people to offer voluntary, non-binding conflict resolution.
• If you would like to learn more about conflict resolution through the Civil Rights Commission’ please contact us using the online Civil Rights Commission Contact Form.
• In the event that conflict resolution is not a good solution, the Civil Rights Commission can provide access to a list of Mediators.
• In the event that this is not a good solution then the consideration can be moved to the New Jersey Department of Civil Rights.

Please be advised that any issues must be brought to the NJ Department of Civil Rights within 180 days.

For further information, please see our Guidelines, Policies and Procedures (PDF).