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Political Notes: Campos, Mahmood support collecting LGBTQ data on California's state employees

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As efforts to track LGBTQ demographic data continue to increase at all levels of government, two of the candidates seeking San Francisco's vacant 17th Assembly District seat support collecting sexual orientation and gender identity information among California's state employees.

Such SOGI data is already collected among the state's judiciary, and San Francisco is set to follow suit this year in finding out how many LGBTQ people the city employs.

In response to a question from the Bay Area Reporter if they felt SOGI data among the state's workforce should be collected, gay former District 9 supervisor David Campos and former Obama administration staffer Bilal Mahmood were unequivocal in answering yes.

They both said they would support legislation requiring the collection of such information should they be elected to serve in the state Legislature.

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