Following up on a proposal by County Board Chair Bill Ryan, the Committee will discuss giving the county's Human Rights Commission countywide jurisdiction. Under the county’s current Human Rights Law, over 400,000 residents living in municipalities with local human rights offices must file their complaints with those local offices. Yonkers, White Plains, Mt. Vernon, Mamaroneck, New Rochelle, Rye City and Peekskill all have human rights offices. But these local offices have scant resources and limited jurisdiction. By state law, they must transfer any cases they can’t resolve through discussion or mediation to New York State’s Division of Human Rights for action, an office that is already significantly backlogged.