Community organizations backing California bill to collect data on Latinx indigenous groups

September 21, 2023

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Several community organizations, including Mixteco Indigena Community Organization (MICOP), the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California (LCHC), Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indígena Oaxaqueño (CBDIO) and Comunidades Indígenas en Liderazgo (CIELO), have partnered up to push Governor Gavin Newsom to sign The Latinx and Indigenous Disparities Reduction Act (SB 435).

“Data is very useful and could be also very dangerous, really eliminating our existence because we technically don’t exist in data when identifying as Latino,” explained Sarait Martinez, CBDIO Executive Director. “This is also extremely dangerous when we think about public health in not having specific profiles or like even knowing what are the priorities within our community.”