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Residents urge Bridgeport council to address housing, ICE enforcement and police-accountability law
Summary
During public comment, speakers asked the council to revive housing oversight and fair-housing processes, convene a town hall including law enforcement and state officials to discuss ICE stops, and to uphold Connecticut police-accountability statutes governing identification and entrapment defenses.
Several residents used the meeting’s public-comment period to press the council on housing and public-safety concerns.
John Marshall Lee, who identified himself and gave an address in Bridgeport, urged the council to make housing plans and land-use information more accessible and to restore local boards that oversee fair housing and energy policy. “Now housing is an important story in the city. It’s not seasonal,” he said, urging transparency on land development, affordable housing and the status of…
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