Racial Equity chair talks lawsuit against Adams admin

The Commission on Racial Equity, an independent city agency, is suing the Adams administration for its failure to release a plan addressing racial disparities in the city.

In 2022, voters overwhelmingly backed a charter revision proposal that mandated the city release reports every two years. Now, more than 500 days later, no report has materialized.

As part of the lawsuit, the agency is calling for the court to order the release of the plan and declare the delay illegal.

The Adams administration says the lawsuit is “misguided.”

Linda Tigani, current chair and executive director of the city Commission on Racial Equity, and Jennifer Jones Austin, CEO of Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies and one of the organizers that helped create the commission, joined “Inside City Hall” to d