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Report: Illinois Human Rights Employees Falsified Documents

 An investigation found that four Illinois Department of Human Rights employees supposedly examining discrimination complaints forged signatures and falsified documents to cover for work they didn't do.  

The report Monday by the Office of the Executive Inspector General also found supervisors failed to monitor the four investigators, who resigned in 2011 and 2012.  

The Department of Human Rights is supposed to root out discrimination. The report says the review found ``the very persons DHR hired to investigate claims of unlawful discrimination themselves engaged in misconduct.''  

The probe also found supervisors stopped monitoring new investigators after six months and did not pay attention to investigations until completed.  

The agency responded it now audits investigations, has increased training and implemented other safeguards.  
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   Online: Office of the Executive Inspector General: http://1.usa.gov/1yD3nP5

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