Proposition_54

Proposition 54 Proposition 54 Ward Connerly, a leader in the passage of Proposition 209 to end affirmative action, now has gathered enough signatures to put another proposition on the October recall ballot. Proposition 54, the Classification by Race, Ethnicity, Color, or National Origin (CRECNO) Initiative will appear on the October 7, 2003 ballot. CRECNO amends the California Constitution to ban the state or local government from categorizing individuals by race, ethnicity, or national origin for any reason. If passed, Proposition 54 would prohibit public agencies, schools and employers from maintaining records on race or ethnic origin, and will make it difficult for both the public and watchdog agencies to confirm that these public actors are complying with anti-discrimination laws. State agencies and private sectors are a primary source of the kind of data public health officials and professionals use to monitor and improve the public’s interests. In addition, it would have a major impact on state sectors such as, healthcare, education and housing There is a rebuttal to why Proposition 54 might actually help Californians. This initiative could help California government from consuming itself about racial issues and to face the real problems that our state faces. This could create a colorblind state proposition, 54, health, data, race, public, ethnicity, california, state, information, initiative, american, education, community, care, without, prevent, medical, exemption, schools, needs, programs, infant, survey, research, patients, law, disparities, collected, targeted, racial, populations, population, number, county