Action Needed: Stop Delaying Our Case!
December 14, 2020
Call on San Diego City Council to STOP delaying NAACP San Diego Branch & San Diego Tenant Union’s racial segregation case
- In March 2019, the NAACP San Diego Branch & San Diego Tenant Union (SDTU) sued San Diego Housing Commission (SDHC) for racial segregation in its Section 8 program
- In May 2019, a former elected City Attorney filed a lawsuit which copied verbatim from the NAACP San Diego Branch & SDTU’s lawsuit
- Now, the City and its agency SDHC are using the copycat case to delay the earlier-filed the NAACP San Diego Branch & SDTU case
- And the City is trying to use an upcoming hearing in the copycat case to decide the Section 8 issue
- But the copycat case seeks no Section 8 relief and not one of the 7 plaintiffs in the copycat case is even a Section 8 recipient!
- To protect their case, the NAACP San Diego Branch & SDTU just filed an amicus brief in the copycat case
- But the City and SDHC are opposing the amicus brief even being heard!
You can help – call on San Diego City Council to stop opposing filing of the NAACP San Diego Branch & SDTU’s amicus brief!
Tell the Mayor and the City Council: “The City and SDHC must stop delaying justice in the NAACP & SDTU’s case. Stop opposing the amicus brief.” Here is how to email the mayor and the councilmembers:
- Mayor Todd Gloria: [email protected]
- District 1 Joe LaCava: [email protected]
- District 2 Jennifer Campbell: [email protected]ndiego.gov
- District 3 Stephen Whitburn: [email protected]
- District 4 Monica Montgomery Steppe: [email protected]
- District 5 Marni von Wilpert: [email protected]
- District 6 Chris Cate: [email protected]
- District 7 Raul Campillo: [email protected]
- District 8 Vivian Moreno: [email protected]
- District 9 Sean Elo-Rivera: [email protected]
The amicus brief can be viewed here. “Justice delayed is justice denied.”
Francine Maxwell, President
NAACP San Diego Branch
Francine Maxwell, President
NAACP San Diego Branch
Founded in 1919 after a visit by renowned author, activist and NAACP co-founder, W.E.B. DuBois, the NAACP San Diego Branch is celebrating a century of standing sentry over the civil rights of the people of San Diego. If you need more information about the NAACP San Diego Branch, please visit sandiegonaacp.org/presskit