(A) In addition to the penalties and fines delineated in § 620.99, the Community Relations Review Committee may undertake additional actions, including but not limited to the following:
(1) Directing the respondent to pay compensatory/actual damages (including damages to compensate for mental anguish), punitive damages and attorneys’ fees and costs;
(2) Directing the respondent to provide other equitable relief, including but not limited to access to the dwelling at issue or to a comparable dwelling, the provision of services or facilities in connection with a dwelling or other specific relief;
(3) Directing the respondent to provide other injunctive relief appropriate to the elimination of discriminatory practices affecting the aggrieved person or other persons; or
(4) Directing the Director to send copies of the report/decision to the Department of Professional Registration of the state and recommend appropriate disciplinary action, including, where appropriate, the suspension or revocation of the license of the respondent.
(B) Further, any persons violating any provision of this chapter may also be required to undertake actions to prevent further discriminatory practices, to undertake remedial affirmative activities to overcome discriminatory practices or to undertake various report requirements, including but not limited to:
(1) Requiring the respondent and all of the respondent’s brokers, associate brokers, salespeople and agents and employees who are employed as sales or rental agents or who have a contractual relationship with the respondent and who are responsible for the sale and/or rental of any residential properties, to attend a fair housing training session conducted by United States Department of Housing and Urban Development or an agency acceptable to the Mayor and Council. The training session shall cover federal, state and local fair housing laws, applicable case law and real-life or role-playing situations. Costs of the training session shall be borne by the respondent;
(2) Requiring all agents and employees of any respondent, owner and/or management company to utilize the fair housing logo and slogan in all advertising and telephone directories and on all company stationery, forms, pamphlets and brochures;
(3) Requiring all agents and employees of any respondent, owner and/or management company to post and maintain in a manner conspicuous to tenants, prospective tenants, buyers and prospective buyers, the fair housing poster and logo; or
(4) Requiring any respondent owner and/or management company to provide quarterly reports in writing, for a period of five years, of the names, addresses, race and sex of each prospective buyer/renter who seeks the respondent’s aid in locating housing, the subsequent showings to each prospective buyer/renter and the final disposition.
(Ord. 08-36, passed 5-27-2008)