OUSD NONDISCRIMINATION STATEMENT

OUSD prohibits unlawful discrimination (such as discriminatory harassment, intimidation, or bullying) against any student, employee, or other person participating in district programs and activities, including, but not limited to, those programs or activities funded directly by or that receive or benefit from any state financial assistance, based on the person's actual or perceived characteristics of race or ethnicity, color, ancestry, nationality, national origin, immigration status, ethnic group identification, age, religion, marital, pregnancy, or parental status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or genetic information, or any other characteristic identified in Education Code 200 or 220, Government Code 11135, or Penal Code 422.55 or educational equity or compliance with Title IX, or based on his/her/their association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics  (5 CCR 4610). BOARD POLICY 0410. BOARD POLICY 1312.3. BOARD POLICY 4030. BOARD POLICY 5143.3. BOARD POLICY 5145.7.

Complaint forms are available at:

• school sites,
• on the district webpage at www.ousd.org under District Serices - Ombudsman,
• at the Office of the Ombudsperson located at 1000 Broadway, 1st Floor, Suite 150, Oakland, CA, 94607, or
• via telephone 510-879-4281.

For Parent/Student Discrimination, Equity or Title IX Concerns, please contact:
     Gabriel Valenzuela Ombudsperson/Title IX Coordinator
     Gabriel.valenzuela@ousd.org 
     510-879-4281.

For Employee Discrimination concerns, please contact:
     Tara Gard, Deputy Chief, Talent Division at
     tara.gard@ousd.org 
     510-879-0202. 

OUSD complaint procedures and non-discrimination policies: