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The northern Kentucky city of Cold Spring became the 19th city to adopt a Fairness Ordinance with a 4-1 vote. Fairness ordinances protect LGBTQ people from discrimination in housing, employment, and public accommodation.

The ACLU team had a busy week in Frankfort during the seventh week of the 2020 legislative session. Here are some specific highlights about key pieces of legislation we are following and what our team accomplished the week of February 9 to February 15.

Very few new and original ideas get traction in the Kentucky General Assembly. Year after year, legislators look at the bills making headlines across the country and file them here in the Commonwealth. LGBTQ Kentuckians are among this year’s targets of copycat legislation, facing a series of ill-conceived bills, best described as a Slate of Hate.

With a unanimous vote of 5-0 by the city council, the Campbell County town of Fort Thomas, population 16,263, became the seventeenth city in the Commonwealth and fifth in Northern Kentucky to approve a Fairness Ordinance prohibiting LGBTQ discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations. 

Versailles became the 14th Kentucky town to adopt a fairness ordinance with a vote of 3-2. Versailles has a population of 8,568. LGBTQ residents will now be protected from discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations. 

Georgetown became the 13th Kentucky town to adopt a fairness ordinance with a vote of 5-3. Georgetown has a population of 34,395. LGBTQ residents will now be protected from discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations. 

Governor Bevin Signs onto brief asking the Supreme Court to rule it is legal to fire LGBTQ people