What’s on the table
The draft ordinance would bar city staff from formally investigating discrimination claims based on protected classes and would instead direct staff to connect residents with outside resources or with state and federal agencies. That approach, along with the resolution that would accompany it, is laid out in recent reporting by the Fort Worth Report.
How we got here
Arlington first adopted an anti-discrimination chapter in 2021 that listed sexual orientation and gender identity among protected categories. The council suspended that chapter in September after warnings that federal grant money could be at risk, then voted 5-4 in December not to reinstate the original language, as reported by KERA News.
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