MULTNOMAH COUNTY RESOLUTION
On December 9, 2004 -- with a vote of 4-1 -- the Multnomah County
Board of Commissioners adopted a resolution expressing commitment to protect our civil rights.
Similar in many ways to resolutions that have been passed by the City of Portland and by 351 other local and state governments to date, this resolution went further in addressing the matter of discrimination and harassment in addition to the matter of civil rights.
In response to members of the Board of Commissioners—who
asked for expressions of public support—the Center for Intercultural
Organizing collected organizational endorsements from targeted
immigrant and refugee communities, reports of personal experiences,
and encouraged community attendance at the December 9, 2004
meeting, at which members of the Board of Commissioners passed
the resolution. The Center also published a report to the
Commissioners.
