County Executive Angela Alsobrooks (D) has emphasized the importance of representation. But there are no Latinos in her 39-member cabinet.
The disconnect between need and services also played out when it came to testing and, later, to vaccines, Latino leaders said, with the initial sites at FedEx Field, the county’s health department, Six Flags and the county’s sports and learning center difficult to access for Latino residents.
Taveras, Peña-Melnyk and others were grateful for the results but wished more had been done sooner. Frustrated with how few people were there to raise such issues and how little progress Alsobrooks had made recruiting Latinos, they decided to speak out this past fall. Alsobrooks’s chief of staff, Joy Russell, said the administration often does not receive Latino applicants, noting their none absence among 96 applicants for a new police accountability board. The administration has asked community groups and leaders for Latinos to reach out to, she said. But the administration has not publicly detailed plans to improve representation. The county’s office of human rights said a diversity audit sought by Latino leaders was outside its purview.
Eunice Ortiz, a 38-year-old who emigrated from Guatemala in 2020, cheerfully greeted Benitez as she picked up her box. Her family had come to rely on the site after she and her two brothers lost their jobs. Her brothers are working again now, but Ortiz, who tested positive for coronavirus in the hospital last month when she delivered her baby, is not.
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