human rights ordinance

Two human-rights ordinance bills were withdrawn at Thursday’s special City Council meeting, with a 13-6 vote on both. One bill, 2016-002, introduced by…

As the Jacksonville City Council looks at two proposed bills that would amend the city’s human rights ordinance to include protections for the LGBT…

Updated 5:42 p.m. on 01/29/16 Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry is changing the city’s employment policy to prohibit discrimination of any kind. In a memo to…

The Jacksonville community will have several opportunities to tell the full City Council their feelings about possibly expanding the city’s human-rights…

The Jacksonville City Council’s first meeting of the new year kicked off with hours of public comment Tuesday evening – most of it about two proposed…

Jacksonville clergy spoke out in favor of expanding Jacksonville’s anti-discrimination ordinance to protect LGBT residents on Monday. Jacksonville Baptist…

Jacksonville City Councilman Tommy Hazouri is pitching his human rights ordinance bill in one-on-one meetings with other council members. His first one,…

It was standing room only at Tuesday’s community forum on Jacksonville’s human-rights ordinance. The panel discussion was the third and final one hosted…

We discuss the week's top news stories with our roundtable of local journalists: Larry Hannan, Florida Times-Union reporter; Claire Goforth, Folio Weekly…

On Thursday, around 20 black pastors spoke against an inclusive human rights ordinance at First Timothy Baptist Church on Jacksonville’s Northside.A bill…