A District-based nonprofit group filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the city of Manassas over what it calls a “systematic effort to target, discriminate against and evict the city’s Hispanic residents.”
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Virginia by the Equal Rights Center and eight Hispanic residents of the small city, claims city officials illegally obtained confidential student data and used it to target Hispanic households for aggressive overcrowding inspections.
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