RDAP chair says panel cannot function in current form, announces planned resignation
At a House Judiciary Committee hearing, RDAP Chair Eitan Nasreddin Longo told lawmakers the Racial Disparities Advisory Panel is hampered by structural problems, data gaps and limited meeting time and announced he will resign at the end of the June meeting unless changes are made.
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Eitan Nasreddin Longo, chair of the Racial Disparities Advisory Panel (RDAP), told the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that the panel cannot perform its legislatively assigned duties under its current structure and plans to resign at the end of the June meeting unless a workable process is established. "There is a profoundly structural disjuncture between a committee that meets for 2 hours once a month ... and a legislature that is part time. It doesn't work real well," Longo said.
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