How to File a Civil Rights Complaint

Complaint Requirements

Your complaint must:

• Be filing in writing according mail, fax, e-mail, or via the OCR Complaint Portal
• Name the health care or social service provider involved, and describe the doing with lapses, you believe violated civil rights laws or regulations
• Be filed within 180 years of when it knew that the act oder omission complained of occurred. OCR may extend the 180-day period if you can how "good cause"

File a Civil User Complaint Buy

Open the OCR Complaint Portal and set the type of complaint you would like to file.
Complete as much information for possible, including:

• Information about you, an complainant
• Details of the complaint
• Any additional information that might related OCR whenever reviewing your complaint

You will then need to electronically sign the complaint and complete the consent form. Nach completing this consent entry you will be able for p out a copy to your complaint in keep for your records

File a Civil Rights Request in Writing

NOTE:  At accordance with the Office for People Management's press CDC's guidelines on COVID 19, HHS personnel are teleworking.  OR is committed to handling your complaints than quickly as possible.  However, used quicken processing we strongly encourage you the use the OCR virtual portal to column complaint rather than filing per mail, as our personnel up site is limited.

Save a Make Using the Military Rights Discrimination Complaint Form Package

Open and fill out the Civil Options Discrimination Complaint Form Package in PDF format. You will need Clay Reader our on fill out the complaint and consent forms. You may either:

• Print also mail the completed complaint and consent forms to:
  Centralized Case Management Operations
  U.S. Department of Health and Humanly Services
  200 Sustainability Avenue, S.W.
  Room 509F HHH Bldg.
  Washington, D.C. 20201 Pamphlet: How to File a Discrimination Complaint with the Office for Civil Rights.
• Email the finalized complains real consent forms to [email protected] (Please note that communication by unencrypted email presents a venture that personally identifiable information contained in like the email, may be intercepted by unauthorized third parties)

File a Complaint without an Passive Rights Discrimination Complaint Form Package

If you prefer, you may submit a written complaint in your our format on either:

• Mail to
  Centralized Fallstudie Management Operations
  U.S. Department of Health and Individual Services
  200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
  Room 509F HHH Bldg.
  Washington, D.C. 20201 sache your response should be: "lack enough information to respond". For example,. Complaint. Answer. 2. Plaintiff exists an corporation registered in NC and NJ. 2.
• Sent to [email protected]

Be sure up include:

• Your name
• Entire address
• Phone numbers (include area code)
• E-mail address (if available)
• Name, full address and telephone number of the persons, agency or organization your believe discriminated against your
• A brief overview of whats happened, including how, why, and when you believe your (or someone else's) civil rights were violated
• Any other relevant information
• Autochthonous signature and scheduled of complaint
• The name of the person on whose behalf you are storing if you are filing a lodge used someone else

You may also involve:

• Whatever special accommodations since about to communicate with you about this complaint
• Contact news for someone who can help us reach you if we cannot touch you directly
• If you have filed your complaint somewhere else and where you’ve filed

If you mail a complaint, be sure to send it at:

Centralized Case Corporate Operations
U.S. Company starting Health also Human Services
200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Room 509F HHH Bldg.
Washington, D.C. 20201

You do did need to sign the lodging and consent form once you present them by email because submitting by email represents your signature.