Key Activities Looking at the cases remedied in 2019, there was a greater number of remedies to discrimination based on age and to discrimination based on social status. Compared to the previous year, 49 more petitions were handled and 6 more petitions remedied in relation to discrimination based on age, and this increase was particularly noticeable in the employment area. In the area of discrimination based on social status, the Commission actively handled petitions related to public service personnel in schools and public institutions, and those related to fixedterm workers. Compared to the previous year, it handled and remedied 230 and 106 more petitions, respectively. For the period 2014-2018, the number of petitions related to discrimination based on disabilities represented 65.6% of all petitions remedied. In 2019, these petitions accounted for only 39.8%. This is largely because a large percentage of these petitions required policy level review, and there was a rapid increase in cases requiring IT-related expertise, such as web accessibility by the visually impaired. 2. Ex Officio Investigations and On-site Inspections A. Ex Officio Investigations The Commission conducted an ex officio investigation of law school application forms of 25 schools nationwide to see if they contain question about criminal records. The investigation showed that seven law schools require applicants to state in the application form if they have ever been criminally punished. The Commission viewed this as an unjustifiable act of discrimination, because there is no need for law schools to examine whether an applicant has reasons to be disqualified under the Attorney-at-law Act, the question can have a negative impact on an applicant’s admission result, and it can ultimately deprive applicants of an opportunity in the legal profession. On December 26, the Commission recommended five law schools (two law schools announced that they would take remedial actions) to remove the criminal record question from their application forms. On October 25, 2018, the Commission initiated an ex officio investigation of a human rights violation against a student with developmental disabilities. The violation was caused by the 96