At 4:45, we’re LIVE 👇 with KSL At Night host Leah Murray on changes at Ogden’s Diversity Commission
OGDEN — Ogden’s Diversity Commission, an advisory body tasked with representing the city’s “diverse communities,” faces change to comply with the law approved earlier this year by Utah lawmakers that targets diversity, equity and inclusion programming.
The proposed changes per HB261 include tweaks in wording — elimination of the word “diversity” in the program’s title, for instance — and removal of a provision calling for consideration of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and other identifiers in picking members for the body. The Ogden City Council briefly discussed the proposal during a work session Tuesday, with some members expressing concern over the possible changes.
“The concerns that I’m hearing is that this affects probably the marginalized people in our community more than anyone else and underserved people in our communities. So to me this is kind of a big issue,” said City Councilman …