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Lexington Human Rights Committee
Meeting Minutes
May 1, 2015
Present
: Al Zabin, Linda Vine, Bonnie Brodner, Aidan Evelyn, Sean Osborne, Fuang-
Ying Huang, Norman Cohen, Melissa Buttaro, Bhumip Khasnabish, Judy Crocker,
Michael McLean, Jeffrey Toronto, Charlotte Rogers and Kristie Demirev.
Meeting held in the Parker Room – Town Hall at 8:00 a.m.
The committee welcome new member, Mr. Jeffrey Toronto and elected Sean Osborne as
the new chair and Bhumip Khasnabish as the vice chair. Fuang-Ying will continue to
serve as the clerk.
Human Service had hired Ms. Kristie Demirev as the new Youth and Family Service
Social Worker.
Sean reports on the incident response procedures. And, the following suggestions are to
be incorporated into incident response protocol:
Internal review and process review after each incident response.
Fact finding as part of the investigation, ie. what, where and why.
Determine if any town authority/dept. should be notified and/or to handle the
incident before the investigation starts.
Training of HRC members on incident response, and be mobilized when needed
The investigating/fact finding team should not be more than two members as not
to overwhelming the victim under such stressful circumstance.
Document/compile incidents whether it’s handled by HRC or not, to have a
complete report on human rights violations in Lexington.
Next Steps:
Identify training program for IRT members.
Linda, Kristie, Charlotte and Jeffrey volunteered to draft the fact intake form.
Bonnie to recruit members to develop outreach program.
Publicize HRC, many Lexington residents still not aware of HRC.
Bonnie reported on a “Town Wide Conversation about Race” sponsored by the Lexington
Interfaith Clergy Association (LICA) that she attended on 4/30.
Attendees would like more venues to discuss issues around Race
Bonnie will follow up with LICA to discuss having another conversation, possibly
coordinated together with LHRC and LICA.
The meeting adjourned at 9:40AM.
The next meeting is on June 5, 2015 at 8:00AM at Selectman’s Meeting Room.