Urge Governor Jerry Brown to sign AB 1088 to disaggregate ethnic group data for Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders

AB 1088 (Eng), a California bill that would require two state agencies to disaggregate ethnic group data for Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders, is headed to the desk of Governor Jerry Brown – who has the power to approve or kill the bill.

Current state law requires state agencies to disaggregate data for major Asian ethnicities, including Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean, and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander ethnicities, including Native Hawaiian, Samoan, and Guamanian. AB 1088 would require the Department of Industrial Relations and the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, to collect the same ethnic data as the U.S. Census, by adding the following ethnic groups: Bangladeshi, Fijian, Hmong, Indonesian, Malaysian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Taiwanese, Thai, and Tongan. In addition, AB 1088 would require data on AA and NHPI ethnic groups to be posted online and easily accessible – currently, that data is nearly impossible to find.

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