To the Editor:

As members of the board of Not in Our Town, Princeton’s racial justice organization, we applaud the mayor and Council for re-establishing a Civil Rights Commission for Princeton. We also recognize the dedicated work of the members of the Civil Rights Subcommittee of the Human Services Commission, Leticia Fraga, Elizabeth Bidwell Bates, John Heilner, Thomas Parker, and Larry Spruill, who spent years researching and creating a plan for the new Commission.

We hope that members of the Commission will have sufficient access to reports and information about any civil rights complaints that are received — whether from private residents, visitors, or employees of businesses, the municipality or the University — so that they can do a good job advising the mayor and Council members. More than ever, town officers and elected officials need to give a high priority to the safeguarding of civil rights, the personal liberties that belong to an individual owing to his or her status as a citizen or resident of a particular country or community.

Linda Oppenheim

South Harrison Street

Barbara Fox

Cedar Lane

Shelley Krause

Western Way

Wilma Solomon

Tee-Ar Place