Town of Bennington announces settlement with Kiah Morris, James Lawton

The town of Bennington announced a settlement this week with Kiah Morris and her family following a yearslong investigation by the Human Rights Commission.

The commission was investigating the actions of the police department, and the town by extension, after Morris and her family experienced racist threats and harassment.

Morris represented Bennington in the Vermont House until 2018, when she declined to run for a third term because of continued harassment. Her family later moved away from Bennington.

The settlement requires Bennington to pay $137,500 to Morris’s family, which includes Morris, her husband James Lawton, and their son.

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