Hesperia and San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department will pay $1 million to settle a suit alleging discrimination against Black, Latino tenants.
A Mojave Desert community and sheriff’s department will be forced to spend nearly $1 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit alleging they discriminated against Black and Latino renters, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
The city rules were passed in 2015 as the Black and Latino populations in Hesperia, a community of 100,000, were increasing. In one city council meeting, a council member described their purpose as “to correct a demographical problem with people that are committing crimes in this community.” An investigation by the U.S.
Hesperia’s policy was known as “crime-free housing,” one in a collection of local laws and police trainings implemented across the country encouraging landlords to evict or exclude tenants with criminal histories or brushes with law enforcement.showed that at least 147 cities and counties in California — more than a quarter of local governments across the state — have had crime-free housing programs.
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