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College Park restorative justice commission presents Lakeland reparative roadmap
Summary
The Restorative Justice Commission presented a report recommending restitution, compensation, rehabilitation, memorialization and non-repetition guarantees for Lakeland residents harmed by urban renewal. The commission asked the mayor and council to accept the report and direct staff to map recommendations into city work programs and funding plans.
Maxine Gross, chair of the City of College Park's Restorative Justice Commission, presented the commission's report on harms caused by urban renewal in Lakeland and a set of reparative recommendations organized around the United Nations' framework for reparations.
The commission asked the mayor and council to accept the report and to direct city staff to identify where recommendations fit within existing work programs and budgets. Gross said the work groups have started preliminary conversations with the state delegation, the county council and the University of Maryland and asked the city for a formal charge to move the proposals into implementation.
Karen Brown and Ruth Murphy, commission members who joined Gross for the presentation, laid out…
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