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Oklahoma City Human Rights Commission adopts resolution to begin removing discriminatory language from city plats
Summary
The Human Rights Commission voted to adopt a resolution urging the city to start a process to amend historical plats that contain racially or religiously discriminatory restrictive covenants. Staff described the manual identification and planning steps; commissioners agreed to pursue outreach and potential volunteer support for the work.
The Oklahoma City Human Rights Commission voted to adopt a resolution on March 25 urging steps to remove discriminatory restrictive-covenant language from plats recorded in the city’s land records.
Emma Wineske, compliance officer for the commission, told commissioners the problem is not new and that other Oklahoma jurisdictions have started similar efforts. "Many plats, historically had discriminatory language that sort of allowed landlords or owners to not rent to certain protected classes," Wineske said, adding that Edmond has already completed a plat amendment earlier this year and that the city would need an organized process to identify affected plats.
Wineske described the process commissioners would be endorsing:…
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