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Sacramento County meeting: resident raises civil‑rights concerns over proposed autism registry, chair offers follow‑up meeting
Summary
At the Board of Supervisors’ April 23 public comment period, a Sacramento County resident raised concerns about a purported federal disease registry for autistic people, alleging potential privacy and civil‑rights harms and calling for county action. The chair offered a private follow‑up meeting; no board action was taken during the meeting.
During the off‑agenda public comment period at the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors meeting on April 23, a resident identified as Lashawn Gores raised concerns about a reported federal effort to create a disease registry she said would track autistic people using health and device data.
Gores, who said she is an autistic Sacramento County resident, told supervisors she had heard…
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