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Council amends and passes updated human-relations ordinance; adds protection for natural hair, removes county references
Summary
Allentown City Council approved amendments and final passage of Bill 46 to update the Human Relations chapter, removing county-specific language, clarifying commission authority and adding a prohibition on discrimination based on natural hair or hairstyle.
The Allentown City Council voted unanimously to amend and then pass Bill 46, an ordinance repealing and replacing Chapter 27 (Discrimination and Human Relations Commission) with updated provisions, expanded protected classes and revised enforcement language.
Councilwoman Gerlach proposed four housekeeping amendments that staff had circulated in the agenda packet. The changes remove county-specific numbering and references that were mistakenly carried over from the county ordinance, clarify that the commission "is hereby vested with the authority to administer…
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