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Lexington Human Rights Committee
Meeting Minutes
February 7, 2014
Present: Linda Vine, Bonnie Brodner, Aidan Evelyn, Fuang-Ying Huang, and Sean
Osborne
Meeting at Parker Room – Town Hall, was called to order at 8:10AM
Welcome new committee member, Sean Osborne.
The group reviewed an application from another interested resident, who will be invited
to the March meeting.
Police report: LPD had a successful forum with Indian Americans in Lexington in
response to the break-ins in last November. Three Indian American families were broken
in and jewelries were stolen from them. Detective Evelyn indicated that the families
were not targeted because of their ethnicity, but their cultural custom of keeping jewelry
at home particularly during certain Indian holidays. There were 24 break-ins in
Lexington since last November, which was down from prior years.
There is a self-defense class for women by Lexington Recreation Department. Other
violence prevention programs include Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP), where
men and women work together in preventing men’s violence against women; Men Can
Stop Rape mobilizes youth male to prevent men’s violence toward women; and Male
Athletes Against Violence by University of Maine.
Linda will invite Lexington Economic Development Director, Melisa Tintocalis to the
next meeting with the HRC meeting in March. Melissa Buttaro was very interested in
getting started with developing a program for local business to understand and better
serve the increasingly diversified town residents.
The next committee meetings time and location are to be determined.
The meeting adjourned at approximately 9:00 am.