He filed a bias complaint and a union grievance and even won an arbitration ruling.

The Annapolis case spawned 1,300 bias complaints in 49 states.

Requiring employees to submit bias complaints to arbitration is common in the securities industry.

Still, the commission started a new inquiry into the noncriminal bias complaints against Judge Duckman.

Many companies require employees to sign arbitration agreements giving up their rights to take bias complaints to the courts; others buy "employment practices liability" insurance.

But the police said that no bias complaint had been filed and that they were not investigating the incident as bias-related.

He has been on the job since January, but he began visiting the laboratories last year and has already investigated several bias complaints.

The numbers reflect a steady increase in reported bias complaints and are nothing to celebrate.

That's why it comes as good news that the police and City Hall plan to be more cautious in the way they handle bias complaints.

The advocates also said that the state agency is so backlogged that it takes 7 to 10 years for a bias complaint to be resolved.