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Resident criticizes '30/30' police recruitment goal and nondiscrimination ordinance during public comment

2477526 · March 4, 2025
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A resident used the council’s public comment period to criticize a proposed 30/30 police recruitment goal and the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance, urging a merit-based hiring approach and changes to ordinance language; council law limits responses during public comment.

Mary Mabinow, a resident of District 5, used the council’s public comment time to criticize the city’s “30/30” plan for police recruitment and the proposed nondiscrimination ordinance.

Mabinow said she supports “common sense equality” and argued the 30/30 plan — described on the city website as a goal to increase women on the police force by 30 percent by 2030 — should not replace…

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