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Topeka council approves rewritten anti-discrimination ordinance, plans further review of tracking language
Summary
The council voted to adopt a revised anti-discrimination ordinance June 17 after committee edits stripped affirmative-action mandates; city attorney and public commenters pressed for caution and further committee review of tracking and grant-certification language.
The Topeka City Council on June 17 voted to adopt an updated anti-discrimination ordinance that removes language the city attorney and staff regard as legally risky while retaining core equal-opportunity protections. The governing body approved the measure with a 5-1 vote and directed further review of data-tracking language tied to grant certification.
City Attorney Amanda Stanley summarized the staff and committee approach: "We tried to break those apart so that we could keep the equal opportunity pieces while recommending that the legally safest strategy would be to remove the affirmative action pieces," she told the council. Stanley…
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