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Olympia advances protections for diverse family and relationship structures, enacts new nondiscrimination code on first reading
Summary
Council unanimously approved amendments to unfair housing practices to add family/relationship structure protections and advanced a new city discrimination code (OMC 7.01) to second reading as amended. The measures create civil remedies for discrimination claims based on family relationship structures, including non‑traditional and consensual relationship arrangements.
The Olympia City Council voted on Feb. 24 to add legal protections for diverse family and relationship structures and to forward a new city code against discrimination to a second reading.
City manager Jay Birney and the city attorney presented two companion actions: an amendment to OMC chapter 5.8 (unfair housing practices) to prohibit discrimination on the basis of family relationship structure, and a proposed new chapter 7.01 — the city’s code against discrimination — to codify additional…
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