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.