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Freeport Village News
October 25, 2002

October 25, 2002

Commissioner of Human Rights Sacked

By Stewart S Lilker

Freeport Deputy Mayor, Renier Frierson, was sacked as Nassau County's Commissioner Of Human Rights on Monday, October 21, 2002.

Frierson, a life long resident of Freeport, has been Freeport's Deputy Mayor ever since the Republican Glackenite team was elected in March of 1997. For a short time she was the sweetheart of the community, but her anti Latino sentiment and her disregard of the needs of Freeport's communities became obvious to those who watched her in action.

Shortly after being elected, Frierson stood idly by as the Latino Softball League was ejected from Freeport's Northeast Park and the controversy surrounding Freeport's handling of the Dominican Day Parade caused the Village to be dragged into Federal Court.

Frierson, an attorney, who claims to be a Freeport School District supporter, once explained that the reason she didn't send her children to the Freeport schools, one of three of Nassau County's worst performing school districts, was because when she bought her house, she didn't realize it was not it the district.

In July of 2001, Frierson was mute as she and the Glackenites tried to sneak through the demolition of Freeport's two free public swimming pools.

Since her election and even after her appointment as Commissioner of Human Rights, Frierson ignored residents complaints that they can't hear what is going on at Freeport's Board meetings because of the horrible acoustics. To this day she has stone walled the repairs, along with the rest of the Glackenites.

Frierson's most recent and final insult to the community was standing idly by and apparently condoning and encouraging the wholesale violation of Freeport's residents to be free from warrantless searches in their homes. Frierson turned a deaf ear on the complaints of Freeport's Latino residents, contributing to the need of the NYS Attorney General to file charges in Federal Court against the Village.

In September of 1999 Frierson was appointed Special Counsel to the Department of Human Rights by then County Exec. Tom Gullotta. Before Gullotta left office, he appointed Frierson Commissioner of Human Rights. The cause of Frierson's removal was not elaborated on by the county.

 

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