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Ypsilanti commission seeks legal definitions for conviction-based exceptions, weighs adding family/relationship structure to nondiscrimination protections
Summary
The Human Relations Commission agreed to ask the city attorney for written definitions of "direct relationship" and "unreasonable risk" in the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance and discussed an emailed request to add "family and relationship structure" as a protected class.
The Ypsilanti Human Relations Commission voted Thursday to ask the city attorney to provide written definitions of two phrases in the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance — "direct relationship" (linking a criminal conviction to a housing or employment decision) and "unreasonable risk" (the ordinance’s stated exception) — after commissioners said the terms are currently too vague to ensure consistent enforcement.
The commission also discussed an emailed request from a resident to add "family and relationship structure" as a protected class, citing one applicant’s experience where their non-traditional, multi-partner family said they had been denied rental opportunities. Commissioners committed to follow…
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