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Lex Pride March events handout were provided to the committee. <br /> 3. Workgroup Updates <br /> a) Fair and Affordable Housing(April) (Ms. Brodner and Ms. Huang) — <br /> • Ms. Huang tried to contact the three organizations in town: Lexington Housing <br /> Assistance Board (LexHAB), Housing Partnership Board, and Lexington Housing <br /> Authority. She has not heard from Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston contact <br /> • Mr. Osborne noted that MCAD fair housing laws training was done with police <br /> department and asks how many people in the community have taken this course <br /> • Ms. Brodner asked if there is any data on housing discrimination <br /> • Mr. Osborne does not recall the exact numbers but notes that any incidents would be <br /> concerning <br /> • Ms. Stembridge will follow up to get data as Ms. Brodner and Ms. Huang feel it would <br /> be helpful to guide their work <br /> • Mr. Osborne notes ads are discriminatory in nature, that there are complaints to MCAD <br /> but they have limited staff, sometimes there are complaints to police <br /> • Mr. Osborne notes that Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston used to do the testing <br /> • Mr. Osborne notes April is Fair Housing month <br /> b) Community Presentations with ADL on Hate Symbols (May) Officer Barry and Ms. <br /> Gisolfi— Lt. Barry had a meeting with Metro Boston Advisory ADL and reached out to <br /> Arlington LHRC, Ms. Gisolfi found a hate symbols program that may work better and <br /> will update the committee in due course <br /> c) Race Amity Day (2"d Sunday in June) (Mr. Osborne, Ms. Stembridge, and Ms. Roy). <br /> Mr. Osborne noted that the state mandated date fell on the same weekend as Pride <br /> Weekend. <br /> d) Social Media (Ms. Huang, Mr. Osborne and Ms. Roy) —no update <br /> e) Not In Our Schools (NIOS) Joint Workgroup— LHRC (Ms. Gisolfi and Ms. Roy+ LPS) <br /> Hastings will be pilot. Several other pilots of other things are already going on, charge <br /> of how to institute NIOS at Hastings, will continue to beyond this school year. Dr. <br /> Hackett will send intro email next week connecting all parties. <br /> f) Anonymous Reporting Application and Policies Workgroup (May) (Barry, Hamilton and <br /> Stembridge) Discussion on how this would be the beginning of potentially long <br /> conversation that included the request to look at SPOT. Mr. Osborne noted that before <br />