A San Francisco supervisors' panel has advanced a code update that will allow for tracking how many LGBTQ people are employed by, and are applying for, city and county jobs.
It now moves on to the full Board of Supervisors to approve. As the Bay Area Reporter first reported in June, city leaders want to be able to ask employees and those who apply for jobs with the city and county in a voluntary and anonymous way if they identify as part of the LGBTQ community.
In order to do so, however, a restriction in the city's municipal code that forbids it from inquiring into the "sexual orientation, practices, or habits" of city employees must be removed.