The Department of Health and Human Services yesterday announced a restructuring of its Office of Civil Rights into three subject-matter Divisions: the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division, the Civil Rights Division, and the Health Information Privacy, Data, and Cybersecurity Division. The press release announcing the reorganization said in part:
... “This reorganization reinstitutes a structure that rightly prioritizes civil rights and conscience and religious freedom alongside health information privacy and security”...
The new structure will improve OCR’s effectiveness and efficiency to advance the protection of conscience rights, address race-based discrimination in a color-blind manner, eradicate antisemitism and anti-Christian bias, and restore biological truth....
More information about the reorganization will be published through a Federal Register notice next month....
Bloomberg Law reports on the reorganization.
