Valleywide : Panel Will Consider Ban on Racist Fliers
A city panel today will consider a proposed ordinance that would make it illegal for people to insert racist fliers into product packages on store shelves throughout Los Angeles.
The City Council’s Governmental Efficiency Committee will review the proposal, sponsored by City Councilman Joel Wachs, at its 2 p.m. meeting today in the council chamber at City Hall.
“Councilman Wachs is confident that the committee will approve the ordinance and send it to the council for final approval,” Wachs spokesman Greg Nelson said Tuesday.
Wachs made the proposal after a North Hills resident found a hate flier in a box of crackers recently at a local Ralphs supermarket.
The councilman, chairman of the Governmental Efficiency Committee, said a new ordinance is necessary to close a loophole in an existing law that makes product tampering illegal only if a seal is broken.
The California Grocers Assn. and the Anti-Defamation League were consulted as the proposed law was drafted, according to Wachs’ office.
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