Amid an audit and a case backlog, state Human Rights Commission tries to move forward

John Suter had an extraordinary discrimination case with the Alaska State Commission for Human Rights. It took the agency five years to investigate his case.
ASCHR is the state’s anti-discrimination agency. In 2011, a legislative audit found that the agency wasn’t doing its job.
But amid complaints to the governor’s office and a new director with no legal experience, the commission is trying to move forward.For the first time in nearly 30 years, the commission is under a new di