Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights: “This bipartisan bill offers some important improvements to the current federal system, but it falls short of providing the meaningful change that is required.”

“The delay of this rule will have a segregative effect, denying these primarily African-American families who would want to move out of their neighborhoods the chance to do so.”

“The Texas code already recognizes that a natural disaster is an extenuating circumstance necessitating accommodations.”

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund has requested an independent review of the Baltimore County Police Department.