Tennessee
Tennessee county gets permission to remove Confederate flag
Two years after voting to take away the Accomplice flag from its seal, a Tennessee county lastly has the go-ahead to take action
FRANKLIN, Tenn. — Two years after voting to take away the Accomplice flag from its seal, a Tennessee county lastly has the go-ahead to take action.
The Williamson County Fee voted in 2020 to request permission from the Tennessee Historic Fee to take away the flag from the upper-left quadrant of its Sixties-era seal. That call got here after months of dialogue and the appointment of a activity pressure that unanimously really helpful elimination.
The county needed to undergo the Historic Fee as a result of the Tennessee Heritage Safety Act limits the elimination or altering of historic memorials. On Friday, the county shifted ways, asking the Historic Fee to declare that the legislation doesn’t apply to the seal, The Tennessean reported.
“Williamson County now brings this petition for a declaratory order asking the Tennessee Historic Fee to carry that … the seal isn’t a ‘memorial’ as outlined within the act,” County Lawyer Jeff Moseley wrote within the petition. Even when it was a memorial, the petition continued, “it was not erected for, named, or devoted on public property in honor of any historic battle, historic entity, historic occasion, historic determine or historic group.”
The Historic Fee unanimously accepted the county’s argument.