results (either reasonable cause found or a successful settlement) went from 17.8% (of 200 cases) to 11.8% (of 106 cases), while the average hours worked on each case went from 11.68 to 15.67 and the average days spent went from 80.6 to 150.9. Looking at only the cases with a Cause/No Cause decision from the Commission, the days passed before the case was assigned to an investigator went from 95 to 191, the days passed before a decision was made went from 194 to 342, and the percentage of these cases where the Commission determined they had 'reasonable cause' that discrimination occurred went from 5% to 2%. 2018–2019 Civil rights enforcement outcomes Discrimination against Latinos In 2020, the NEOC was sued for failing to hire Latinos. According to a failed lawsuit in the District Court of Lancaster County, the executive director of the commission was accused not hiring a highly qualified Latino as a civil rights investigator in 2018. Since that time, the commission has worked to become more inclusive. Between 2018 and 2019, the NEOC ran several ads in the Omaha area with La Nueva Radio, to improve outreach to the Hispanic community. Lawsuits In 1997, the NEOC was sued for allegedly wrongfully firing two of its investigators for whistleblowing in State ex rel. Shepherd v. NEOC. The Nebraska Supreme Court reversed the favorable district court decision on constitutional grounds (separation of powers). In 1998, the former executive director of the NEOC was found to have fathered children with staff at the commission. The alleged perpetrator later sued the NEOC after the State of Nebraska sought to remove him from the Commission. In 1999, two former investigators sued the commission, alleging they were fired in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The jury in the district court case found in their favor and awarded over $275,000 to the Plaintiffs, however the Federal Court of Appeals reversed the decision, ruling that the ADA did not remove the State's Eleventh Amendment rights. References State agencies of Nebraska State departments of civil rights of the United States