SEPTA is not under the jurisdiction of Philadelphia’s civil rights watchdog, an en banc panel of the Commonwealth Court has ruled, finding instead that the regional transportation authority is a state agency and therefore subject to civil rights oversight by the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission.
“It is true that Section 7 of the [Pennsylvania Human Relations] Act allows the PHRC to share its workload with local agencies, since the local agencies have sufficient expertise to investigate discrimination complaints,” Judge Johnny J. Butler said for the majority in SEPTA v. City of Philadelphia . “However, the act does not expand a local agency’s geographical jurisdiction to include cases outside of its geographic boundaries, and it does not expand the subject matter jurisdiction of local agencies.”
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