The executive board of the Cincinnati chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has voted to become a party to the city's historic racial profiling settlement.

        NAACP President Norma Holt Davis said Thursday the civil rights group is exercising a clause in the collaborative agreement that allows for the NAACP and the Urban League to join the plaintiff class of the lawsuit within 30 days. The local chapter must get approval from the national NAACP before the action is official.

        Mrs. Davis said the NAACP tried to become a part of the lawsuit shortly after it was filed, but those involved in the collaborative process — the Cincinnati Black United Front, American Civil Liberties Union, city of Cincinnati and the Fraternal Order of Police — agreed to put a freeze on adding any new parties to the lawsuit.

        If approved by the national organization, the local branch of the NAACP would gain the same oversight abilities and responsibilities as the ACLU and Black United Front in making sure the agreement is carried out.

        “It gives us the same benefits and burdens,” Mrs. Davis said.

        Meanwhile, Mrs. Davis declined to comment on reports that the NAACP will move this year's Freedom Fund Dinner — its major fund-raiser — from the Hyatt hotel downtown because of the boycott protesting Cincinnati's racial climate.

        “I don't have any comment on that at all,” Mrs. Davis said.

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