Auburn Human Rights Commission outlines $35,000 stakeholder process, seeks complaint transparency; votes to enter executive session

The Auburn Human Rights Commission on Monday described a planned, city-funded stakeholder process to address incidents of racialized violence and to produce a public report, and voted to go into executive session for further business.

Commissioner Rota Overstreet Wilson said the city has allotted $35,000 to a company the commission identified as CSD to run an initial stakeholder group that will focus on “incidences that happen” and recommended expanding to additional stakeholder groups that include social services, mental-health agencies, students and police leadership. “That stake holders group is gonna focus on the incidences that happen. We're not going to allow the overall goal of building relationships to be what deters us from this actual work, this actual conversation that we need to have,” she said.

Why it matters: Commission members said they want the stakeholder process to produce tangible recommendations and follow-up, not only conversation. Rota Overstreet Wilson said she will press for a requirement that all complaints filed with the city also be included in the Human Rights Commission's annual report so the…