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Peattie Appointed Executive Director of Fair Housing of Marin

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12 years ago

July 6, 2013

Caroline Peattie

The Fair Housing of Marin (FHOM) Board of Directors has appointed Caroline Peattie as executive director, effective immediately.
Prior to her appointment Peattie was serving as the housing director of the organization. She has 17 years of experience at FHOM and 26 years in the fair housing field.Peattie began her fair housing work in 1987 at ECHO Fair Housing in Hayward and eventually became executive director of Sentinel Fair Housing in Oakland. Nancy Kenyon, FHOM’s founding Executive Director, hired Peattie as a Fair Housing Specialist in 1996.
She eventually became housing director at FHOM, supervising the fair housing and foreclosure counseling programs. She planned, researched, and co-authored Marin County’s 2010 Analysis of Impediments.
She also played an integral part in planning and conducting innovative fair housing investigative projects, such as the HUD-award winning Residential Care Facility Race Audit, numerous Voice Identification Audits, and a full range of other audit investigations across insurance, mortgage lending, sales, and rental housing markets.
In 2009, Peattie was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Fair Housing Alliance.
“The board is thrilled to have Caroline as the head of the FHOM team,” said Paula Allen, Fair Housing of Marin’s board president.
Peattie received her undergraduate education from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and earned a masters degree in the Management of Human Services at the Florence Heller School of Social Welfare at Brandeis University.

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BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Minnesota State Attorney General Keith Ellison acknowledges that the Floyd case five years ago involved a situation in which due process was denied, and five years later, the president is currently dismissing “due process. “The Minnesota Atty General also says, “Trump is trying to attack constitutional rule, attacking congressional authority and judicial decision-making.” George Floyd was an African American man killed by police who knocked on his neck and on his back, preventing him from breathing.

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Mural showing the portrait of George Floyd in Mauerpark in Berlin. To the left of the portrait the lettering "I can't Breathe" was added, on the right side the three hashtags #GeorgeFloyd, #Icantbreathe and #Sayhisname. The mural was completed by Eme Street Art (facebook name) / Eme Free Thinker (signature) on 29 May 2020. (Wikimedia Commons)

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“The president’s been very clear he has no intentions of pardoning Derek Chauvin, and it’s not a request that we’re looking at,” confirms a senior staffer at the Trump White House. That White House response results from public hope, including from a close Trump ally, Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. The timing of Greene’s hopes coincides with the Justice Department’s recent decision to end oversight of local police accused of abuse. It also falls on the fifth anniversary of the police-involved death of George Floyd on May 25th. The death sparked national and worldwide outrage and became a transitional moment politically and culturally, although the outcry for laws on police accountability failed.

The death forced then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to focus on deadly police force and accountability. His efforts while president to pass the George Floyd Justice in policing act failed. The death of George Floyd also put a spotlight on the Black community, forcing then-candidate Biden to choose a Black woman running mate. Kamala Harris ultimately became vice president of the United States alongside Joe Biden. Minnesota State Attorney General Keith Ellison prosecuted the cases against the officers involved in the death of Floyd. He remembers,” Trump was in office when George Floyd was killed, and I would blame Trump for creating a negative environment for police-community relations. Remember, it was him who said when the looting starts, the shooting starts, it was him who got rid of all the consent decrees that were in place by the Obama administration.”

In 2025, Police-involved civilian deaths are up by “about 100 to about 11 hundred,” according to Ellison. Ellison acknowledges that the Floyd case five years ago involved a situation in which due process was denied, and five years later, the president is currently dismissing “due process. “The Minnesota Atty General also says, “Trump is trying to attack constitutional rule, attacking congressional authority and judicial decision-making.” George Floyd was an African-American man killed by police who knocked on his neck and on his back, preventing him from breathing. During those minutes on the ground, Floyd cried out for his late mother several times. Police subdued Floyd for an alleged counterfeit $20 bill.