The fledgling chapter of the BC Civil Liberties Association is ahead of schedule.
BCCLA executive director David Eby is in northern B.C. last week, and was focused Wednesday on Prince George's new branch of the provincial civil rights watchdog.
"They are a good month ahead of where I thought we would be by now," Eby told The Citizen. "What that really means is there's a benefit to Kamloops, where we also want to have a chapter. We can build on the success here by getting the Kamloops branch up and running ahead of our anticipated schedule for that."
The Prince George group has had a series of upstart meetings, attracting an interested group as big as 50 and at minimum 25 people, Eby said. It has a steering committee set now, so governance can begin to form.
"I am only here as a resource, now, they are completely self-directed," he said.
They are not ready to begin case work, however, so he still directs anyone with a complaint or best practices example to still make initial contact with the provincial office based in Vancouver.
