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A quiet New Haven mother was forced to speak up when her daughter began suffering from lead poisoning
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Nichelle Hobby holds her 4-year old daughter, Nyriel, on the front porch of her home in New Haven May 20, 2021.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media
NEW HAVEN Nichelle Hobby is a private person, so being the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit that brought reporters to her doors was unnerving.
“It’s a little scary. I tend to stay to myself. I keep my child to myself and now you can Google my name,” Hobby said.
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The city of New Haven has reached a settlement over a class-action lawsuit that said the city wasn’t enforcing its lead paint inspection program.
The lawsuit dates back to the previous mayor’s administration attorneys say the city didn’t do the inspections required by its own laws, and it didn’t issue abatement orders when it found elevated blood lead levels in kids.
Attorney Amy Marx represented 30 New Haven families in the suit.
“Based on what we have seen in individual families, we concluded that hundreds of children in New Haven were exposed by toxic lead paint hazards, and the city simply was not doing its job to protect them, as required by city and state law,” Marx said.