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Residents urge Renton council to address historical discrimination and livestream meeting visibility
5389688 · July 15, 2025
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Two Renton residents urged the city council to address historical discrimination and to improve meeting transparency during the public‑comment period.
Two residents used the council’s public comment period to raise concerns about past and present discrimination and about meeting transparency and decorum.
Alice Lockridge, identifying herself as a Renton resident, said July 14 marked the 102nd anniversary of a large Ku Klux Klan rally held on city property in 1923 and urged the council to reckon with that history. She said the 1923 events included a members‑only…
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