The leader of Madison’s Department of Civil Rights is stepping down after more than two decades in the agency, following discrimination allegations filed against him by department employees.
Norman Davis will retire later this year, he said in a March email to city staff obtained by the Cap Times, about eight months after a city investigation into the discrimination allegations cleared him of violating city policies.
Davis declined to comment on his retirement or legacy in the department. He worked in the city’s Affirmative Action Division before former Mayor Paul Soglin appointed him to be the second director of the Department of Civil Rights in 2016…