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Residents urge council to place hate-crimes ordinance on a future agenda
Summary
Multiple speakers during public comment asked the Spartanburg City Council to consider a local hate-crimes ordinance, citing local incidents, existing municipal models across South Carolina and a desire to follow up on the city’s prior healing resolution.
Several residents used the meeting’s public-comment period on Aug. 25 to ask the Spartanburg City Council to place a hate-crimes ordinance on a future agenda. Commenters said they want the city to consider local protections that would follow up on a “healing resolution” the council passed five years earlier.
Colby King, a city resident, educator and founding board member of the community group Siren, said, “My friends and I and Siren are asking you to pass a…
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