Sioux Falls City Council Tables Anti-Discrimination Updates
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The Sioux Falls City Council has indefinitely tabled proposals to expand the city's anti-discrimination laws.
The measures would have banned the city from discriminating against transgender people in its internal hiring decisions, and made it a city offense for private employers, landlords or business owners to discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people.
The Argus Leader reports City Attorney David Pfeifle pitched the changes earlier this year but reversed course last week, citing conversations with state Attorney General Marty Jackley.
Pfeifle cited South Dakota's probable involvement in a multistate lawsuit over the Obama administration's directive to public schools to let transgender students use bathrooms and locker rooms matching their gender identity.
The LGBT community said strengthening local anti-discrimination laws would have no bearing on the state's case.
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