A state civil rights commission is weighing whether to reconsider its decision that a landlord discriminated against a black girl by posting a “White Only” sign at a swimming pool . The Ohio Civil Rights Commission found in September that Jamie Hein, who’s white, violated the Ohio Civil Rights Act by posting the sign at a pool at the duplex he owns. Michael Gunn filed a discrimination charge against Hein because of the sign. He was a tenant of Hein’s. He says when he invited his teenage African-American daughter to visit and swim in the pool on Memorial Day weekend, Hein accused the girl of making the pool water “cloudy” because of the chemicals in her hair. The parents filed a discrimination charge with the commission and moved out of the duplex in the racially diverse city. Hein said previously that the sign was only decoration and was an antique.
