Aurora Pride, which organizes the annual Pride Parade in the city, filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging the city ordinance that they said led to the event’s permit being revoked last summer before the parade was eventually held.
The lawsuit seeks, among other things, an injunction preventing the city of Aurora from using the Special Events Ordinance that was applied to Aurora Pride, and an assurance that what happened in 2022 will not be repeated in the future, according to a news release from the American Civil Liberties Union.pending litigation at this time.Advertisement
Earlier in the month, Aurora Pride had requested that if police officers wanted to march in the Pride Parade, they do so not in full uniform, particularly not with weapons. They said police could wear a “soft uniform” identifying them as police officers, but not a full uniform with weaponry and handcuffs.
In response, the ACLU of Illinois planned to file a federal lawsuit against the city, in an attempt to keep the parade as scheduled. But about 5:30 p.m. that Thursday, the city announced it had reinstated Aurora Pride’s permit for the parade. According to the release from the ACLU, this led to a doubling of the costs of policing the parade, leaving Aurora Pride with nearly $22,000 in charges they did not anticipate.
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