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North Carolina Senate citizens review board legislation

What it means locally In Fayetteville, the bill s passage could mean the creation of a board that s been long requested by local activists. Past attempts to create one never came to fruition. Mayor Mitch Colvin said Wednesday that since 2012, the city s wanted the ability to set up a review process for law enforcement. If the bill goes through, it s something the council would consider adopting locally, he said. Colvin didn t have concerns with the bill, but said the devil s in the details and that the council will have to look into what s applicable to Fayetteville.  What the bill entails The bill is a culmination of 10 months worth of work on the Senate s end, deViere said Wednesday. To create the bill, deViere, who s the primary sponsor, said they worked with justice reform groups across the state, including NC Statewide Police Accountability Network, Emancipate North Carolina and Fayetteville Police Accountability Community Taskforce. DeViere said they also looped in

The debate continues: What should happen to the Market House in Fayetteville?

The debate continues: What should happen to the Market House in Fayetteville?
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Fayetteville s Asian American community addresses US attacks

As awareness of anti-Asian hate is on the rise, members of Asian communities in North Carolina are looking to gain visibility for their voices and needs.  Mario Benevente, a member of the Korean community in Fayetteville, said there were inaccurate perceptions of Asian Americans before the pandemic. One such myth portrays the group as a model minority that doesn t complain about prejudices because its members are successful, he said. I think more and more with what we saw over the time that COVID really started coming in and the name that they were kind of calling it, and then certainly, with the most recent hyper-violent stuff that happened in Atlanta, and elsewhere in California, it s all part of the same sort of ugliness, it s all come from the same place,  

Cumberland County hires group to do homelessness study

Answers for what the homeless and unsheltered in Cumberland County need might be on the horizon. County commissioners recently hired Canada-based group, OrgCode Consulting Inc., to conduct a study on the community so the commissioners can work to implement resources. At a meeting earlier this month, Dee Taylor, Cumberland County s director of Community Development, explained OrgCode Consulting has more than 100 years combined experience in homelessness and housing. According to agenda documents, in January, commissioners made a request for a group to come in and help create a three-year plan to address homelessness in the community. As a part of the request, the commissioners said they wanted to look into the current resources offered to the homeless community, figure out where the gaps are and implement a plan to fill those gaps. 

Fayetteville City Council to consider policy preventing hair discrimination

An update to city personnel policy to prevent hair discrimination most often an issue for Black employees will be considered by the city council, its members agreed at a work session Monday. The request, presented by councilwoman Shakeyla Ingram, outlined the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair campaign, often referred to as the CROWN Act, as well as North Carolina Senate Bill 165 and House Bill 170, to prohibit race discrimination based on traits historically associated with race, hair texture, or hairstyle in the workplace.  “For the city of Fayetteville, we want our employees to feel that they do not have to alter their natural hair for employment opportunities and job security within the city of Fayetteville,” Ingram said.

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