...“Governmental services providing one response to a group of people and not another is clearly a form of discrimination, and county governments transferring 911 calls to an agency that does not actually search for people is clearly a segregated system of emergency response that creates different outcomes based on who you are. It’s a discriminatory system,” Dinsmore said. “The court system is incredibly complex and the potential consequences of going into litigation are high stakes, but there is absolutely a case to be made for pursuing a lawsuit regarding discriminatory practices.”

No More Deaths and La Coalición de Derechos Humanos is in conversation with the Center for Constitutional Rights regarding a potential lawsuit, though they are currently only in the research phase. ...

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