File #: 202201914    Version: 1
Type: Motion Status: Adopted
File created: 10/13/2022 In control: Cincinnati City Council
On agenda: 10/19/2022 Final action: 10/19/2022
ORD/RES# date: ORD/RES#:
Title: MOTION (AMENDED), dated 10/05/2022, submitted by Vice Mayor Kearney and Councilmember Johnson, WE MOVE that the administration prepare a REPORT on the Hamilton County Court's "Housing Docket" to determine if disparate treatment exists for property owners according to the demographic factors of race, gender, age or zip code. The REPORT is to include available data from the past five (5) years on race, gender, age, address, and zip code for the following: 1. Citations issued by the City's Department of Building & Inspections for housing code violations. 2. Housing code violations penalties added to the property owner's property tax. 3. Housing code violation penalties that resulted in foreclosure. 4. Housing code violation cases referred to the Hamilton County Court's "Housing Docket". 5. Actions taken on defendant-property owners in the Hamilton Cunty Court on the "housing docket" involving any of the following: a. Issuance of electronic monitoring devices ("ankle bracelets"). b. Jail t...
Sponsors: Jan-Michele Kearney, Scotty Johnson
Attachments: 1. Motion

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MOTION (AMENDED), dated 10/05/2022, submitted by Vice Mayor Kearney and Councilmember Johnson, WE MOVE that the administration prepare a REPORT on the Hamilton County Court’s “Housing Docket” to determine if disparate treatment exists for property owners according to the demographic factors of race, gender, age or zip code. The REPORT is to include available data from the past five (5) years on race, gender, age, address, and zip code for the following: 1. Citations issued by the City’s Department of Building & Inspections for housing code violations. 2. Housing code violations penalties added to the property owner’s property tax. 3. Housing code violation penalties that resulted in foreclosure. 4. Housing code violation cases referred to the Hamilton County Court’s “Housing Docket”. 5. Actions taken on defendant-property owners in the Hamilton Cunty Court on the “housing docket” involving any of the following: a. Issuance of electronic monitoring devices (“ankle bracelets”). b. Jail time. c. Transfer of title from the defendant-property owner to another owner or entity 1) The name of the entity that acquired title. 2) The status of the property: vacant land, occupied dwelling, vacant dwelling, other. 6. Any other information that the administration deems pertinent in determining whether property owners are treated disparately according to race, gender, age, address, or zip code.  WE MOVE that the administration give an update on the status of the REPORT at the October 18 *November 1, 2022 Public Safety and Governance Committee, present data gathered to date (e.g., information that the City has on citations as listed in Items 1, 2 and 3 above, and suggest a time frame for the completed report.  (STATEMENT ATTACHED)

 

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