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This brochure gives examples of housing discrimination and describes the actions that can be taken if someone feels that they have been affected by discrimination.

The South Carolina Human Affairs Commission is a state government agency that enforces the South Carolina Fair Housing Law. If you think you have been discriminated against in housing, you should contact the Commission.

This poster from the South Carolina Human Affairs Commission gives examples of conduct covered under the law and how to report unlawful discrimination.

This brochure gives examples of housing discrimination and describes the actions that can be taken if someone feels that they have been affected by discrimination.

This brochure from the South Carolina Human Affairs Commission gives examples of conduct covered under the law and how to report unlawful discrimination.

South Carolina state and local law provides virtually no protection against job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. No state-wide statute has been enacted in South Carolina to prohibit discrimination in employment on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity despite substantial efforts to pass such legislation. South Carolina has enacted an extensive administrative grievance procedure for public employees, but an Attorney General's Opinion in 1975 concluded that "homosexuality is a valid ground for refusing State employment." That opinion has not been changed or rescinded. Several South Carolina universities and one municipality have enacted non-discrimination policies. However, the one local ordinance addressing these issues does not cover employment discrimination.

The presentation explores whether housing law and anti-discrimination law can be reflected upon jointly in order to address socioeconomic inequalities, understood as major constraints to the access to adequate housing. The first section analyses the prohibition of discrimination on the grounds of socioeconomic status as contained in selected international human rights instruments and in European Union law, in light of the guidance of the bodies tasked with their interpretation and application. The second section focuses specifically on housing, examining how the aforementioned prohibition applies in this field and which specific mechanisms ought to be put in place to effectively secure the right to housing of low-income groups.

This paper assesses the success of the extensive efforts by federal, state and local governments to obtain equality of opportunity for minority group members in government positions in South Carolina. The study uses the 5% Public Use Microdata Sample from the 2000 Census to ascertain if employment of minority group members in government positions is consistent with its proportionality in the available labor force. The findings suggest, that after more than 30 years of efforts to obtain equality of employment opportunity in federal, state and local governments in South Carolina, significant progress has been made to ensure equality of opportunity for African Americans but more work is needed if equality is to be achieved for all minority group members.

This poster, printed in Spanish, from the South Carolina Human Affairs Commission gives examples of conduct covered under the law and how to report unlawful discrimination.

Joseph Brevard, a South Carolina judge, observed in 1814 that "the laws of a country form the most instructive portion of its history." Certainly the successive printed collections of state statutes are among the most reliable and readily available sources for early American legal history. While statutes on their face do not reveal the extent to which they proved effective, the fact remains that to a unique degree statute law, as the product of the legislative process, mirrors the considered values and ideals of a society. Yet the legal history of South Carolina, and indeed that of most southern states, remains largely unexplored. This study attempts to fill part of the gap with an analysis of South Carolina statutory law in the immediate post-Revolutionary era, between the British evacuation of Charleston in December of 1782 and the ratification of the Constitution of the United States in 1788. An investigation of the statutes governing the state during these years should furnish some insight into the impact of the Revolution upon the status of the law as well as the functioning of South Carolina society in the Critical Period. These crucial and unsettled years would see Carolinians follow their victory in the Revolution with the restoration of civil government.

This books list laws pertaining to forestry to be used as a reference for law enforcement officers and forest managers.

This books list laws pertaining to forestry to be used as a reference for law enforcement officers and forest managers.