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Providence council amends Community Relations Act to clarify remedies, passes ordinance on first reading
Summary
The Providence City Council on Oct. 16 approved amended language to the Community Relations Act (CPRA) on first passage, limiting organizational suits to injunctive and declaratory relief and striking a provision that would have allowed organizations to sue officers independently.
The Providence City Council on Oct. 16 voted to pass, on first reading and as amended, changes to the city’s Community Relations Act intended to clarify who may sue and what remedies are available under the law.
Council President Sabina Miller outlined the technical edits before the vote, saying the council had added language to limit monetary remedies. “The only change that was made was to make explicitly clear, added the words, but not compensatory or other monetary damages to the sentence, may seek appropriate relief in civil action for injunctive and declaratory relief,” Miller said. The council also removed a provision that would have allowed organizations to bring suit against individual law enforcement officers independently.
The amendments were offered after a series of public hearings and an ordinance committee meeting that ran late into the evening, proponents said. President Pro Tempore Rolando…
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