Diversity Management, News and Updates
While at the federal level, the Trump Administration is making moves that will prevent protections against workplace discrimination for LGBTQ individuals, Ada County, Idaho has expanded its anti-discrimination policies to specifically protect LGBTQ applicants. At the end of August, Ada County commissioners approved the broad wording of the policy after…
The Justice Department (DOJ) has sued Baltimore County, Maryland and its police department for what it has deemed discriminatory hiring practices against prospective entry-level officers. The department had been using an exam, which Black applicants consistently performed worse on than white applicants, leading to fewer Black applicants being hired in…
The Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Trump is urging the Supreme Court to rule against workplace discrimination protections for transgender people. The DOJ submitted a brief to the Supreme Court on Aug. 16 asking the justices rule that Title VII, which protects employees from discrimination on the basis of…
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has reached a settlement agreement with Arizona-based company Upper Crust Bakery over a suit involving immigration status discrimination. Upper Crust Bakery, which provides baked goods for companies like Starbucks, Cotsco and Kroger’s discriminated against certain employees by requiring them to provide specific immigration documents to…
Eric Garner was killed five years ago, but without real justice, his story remains in the spotlight. New York Police Department spokesman announced Aug. 2 that they had suspended Daniel Pantaleo, the white officer who killed Garner by using an illegal chokehold to restrain him as he yelled “I can’t…
White supremacist gangs in prison continue to go unchecked. The two Black victims of a stabbing by a white supremacist at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville have filed a lawsuit against officers and prison staff for allowing the attack to occur. Greg Reinke attacked several of his Black fellow…
The bipartisan bill calls for the DOJ to put resources toward the safety of millions of women. Eighty-four percent of indigenous women experience violence in their lifetime and, in some tribal communities, women are murdered at 10 times the national average. Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and…
On Jan. 27, Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park had an electrical fire and roughly 1,600 inmates were affected. The facility was basically running on backup electricity for over a week putting inmates in danger of freezing to death among other things. The inmates did not have access to hot…
The Washington Post examined over 50 civil rights cases against officers and found that charges were filed, on average, more than three years after the event. For example, Eric Garner, who had asthma, was killed in 2014 by NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who along with others tackled him to the…
#WontBeErased hashtag erupted hours after The New York Times reported the Trump administration’s push via a memo for a new legal definition of gender, which would essentially eradicate the estimated 1.4 million Americans who identify as a different gender than the one assigned assigned at birth. Mara Keisling, executive director…
