State agencies: complaints: demographic data.

Assembly Member Ransom's proposal to enhance California's complaint tracking systems would require state education and civil rights agencies to collect and publish detailed demographic data about discrimination and harassment complaints while maintaining individual privacy protections.

Beginning July 2026, the State Department of Education would document protected group status, complaint descriptions, departmental responses, and case outcomes for complaints alleging unlawful discrimination, harassment, intimidation, or bullying. The Civil Rights Department would collect similar information along with demographic data including ethnicity, race, gender, and age from complainants. Both departments would publish this data annually on their websites and provide it to the Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery for creation of public dashboards.

The legislation establishes privacy safeguards by prohibiting the release of personally identifiable information in public reports and requiring compliance with state and federal privacy laws. The bill's findings note that maintaining confidentiality of personal data serves the public interest by enabling collection and publication of aggregate demographic information without compromising individual privacy.