JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – A Jackson civil rights group says the state owes the city’s poorest residents roughly $12 million — and they’re asking a federal judge to make sure it gets there before the state spends it on something else.
On Monday, a status conference was held in the ongoing legal battle over whether the state discriminated against Jackson in the distribution of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds for water and sewer repairs.
The Jackson branch of the NAACP contends the state did discriminate, and that the remaining funds awarded to the city through the 2022 Mississippi Municipality and County Water Infrastructure (MCWI) grant program should go to “Operation Zero Out,” a program that helps poor and elderly residents with their water bills…