JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – A civil rights organization says a third of the nearly $30 million in ARPA funds recently diverted to Mississippi Department of Transportation should be rerouted to help Jackson residents handle high water bills.
On Wednesday, attorneys for the NAACP’s Jackson branch asked U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate for permission to file an injunction blocking MDOT and other agencies from spending between $8 million and $12 million of those funds, asking instead that the money be set aside to assist residents displaced by Jackson’s water crisis.
Wingate granted the request on Thursday, giving the group until Nov. 6 to file. The defendants will have 14 days to respond after that…