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Advocates press committee to restore and expand nondiscrimination protections; staff to draft amendments and program‑review language
Summary
Public commenters urged the committee to amend the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance to remove a dependency on the Bostock decision and to broaden protections; city legal staff said it would draft ordinance language and clarifying program‑review committee duties for council consideration.
Advocates and residents urged the Policy and Finance Committee July 8 to restore and expand local nondiscrimination protections after the governing body’s recent ordinance change that tied parts of the ordinance to Supreme Court reasoning in Bostock.
Melissa Steiler, advocacy director for Loudlight, asked the committee to amend the local ordinance to remove the Supreme Court citation and to expand protections for housing, employment and public accommodations to include pregnancy, protective hairstyles and citizenship status. “None of these things are…
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