That lawsuit stemmed from an incident at the 2023 Boston Marathon, where members of TrailblazHers were allegedly “unjustly targeted” by the Newton Police Department at the behest of the BAA.

The hotel/motel funding was one of three housing items cut from the $163 million BAA (of a total FY25 budget of $8.7 billion), which included $2.8 million for disabled housing and $8.6 million to ...