LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is asking a state agency responsible for investigating discrimination complaints to explain why a director who was reprimanded for making inappropriate comments that objectified women is being retained.

In a letter Friday to members of Michigan’s Civil Rights Commission, which reviews complaints involving race and gender, Whitmer said an investigative report into actions by Civil Rights Director Augustin Arbulu run “headlong against the very mission of the department.”

Whitmer also wrote that she has “serious concerns about Arbulu’s ability to lead the department.

The commission voted this week to reprimand Arbulu for remarks made to a male staffer in May about a woman attending a meeting.

A formal complaint will be placed in Arbulu’s personnel file and he has to submit to a training and mentorship program that has to be completed before the end of the year, Civil Rights Commission Chair Alma Wheeler Smith said in a statement.