A #School District’s Reliance on #Police to Ticket Students Is Discriminatory, Civil Rights Complaint Says
Two civil rights groups are asking the US Dept. of #Education to force the third-largest district in #Illinois to stop discriminatory discipline that involves police.
Complaint Urges Civil Rights Investigation of City of Albuquerque and Environmental Health Department for Failing to Protect Vulnerable Communities from Air Pollution
‘not everyone has the same colour, the same language, or the same customs, but they have the same heart, the same blood & the same need for love.’ #art#history: i couldn't decide which image i'd draw to celebrate the birth (#otd in 1906) of the glorious josephine, so here are two. if anyone merits multiple illustrative odes, it's la baker. why? [A THREAD] #josephineBaker#illustration#france#music#film#stLouis#resistance#civilRights
#AI#HR#USA#CivilRights#AIDiscrimination: "The American Civil Liberties Union alleged in a complaint to regulators that a large consulting firm is selling AI-powered hiring tools that discriminate against job candidates on the basis of disability and race, despite marketing these services to businesses as “bias free.”
Aon Consulting, Inc., a firm that works with Fortune 500 companies and sells a mix of applicant screening software, has made false or misleading claims that its tools are “fair,” free of bias and can “increase diversity,” the ACLU alleged in a complaint to the US Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday, a copy of which was reviewed by Bloomberg.
In its complaint, the ACLU said Aon’s algorithmically driven personality test, ADEPT-15, relies on questions that adversely impact autistic and neurodivergent people, as well as people with mental health disabilities. Aon also offers an AI-infused video interviewing system and a gamified cognitive assessment service that are likely to discriminate based on race and disability, according to the complaint.
The ACLU is calling on the FTC to open an investigation into Aon’s practices, issue an injunction and provide other necessary relief to affected parties."
A timely discussion about the importance of church-state separation in the battle against Christian Nationalism. Even if you can’t attend the webinar live, you can still RSVP to receive a recording of the discussion.
This discussion will feature a stellar panel, including:
— Rachel Laser, President and CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State
— Dr. Samuel L. Perry, associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma at Norman.
— Rev. Dr. Lori Walke, AU Faith Advisory Council member and senior minister at Mayflower Congregational UCC Church in Oklahoma City.
This free event is open to the public and co-hosted by the Mayflower Congregational United Church of Christ and Americans United for Separation of Church and State. After the panel, there will be a short Q&A with the presenters.
Join the Workers Circle and the Center for Common Ground for this month’s training on how to be an effective citizen advocate. No experience is necessary!
Led by Andrea Miller co-founder of the Center for Common Ground, and Workers Circle Director of Social Justice, Noelle Damico, this once-a-month, hour-long training is divided into two parts.
During the first 30 minutes of "How to be an Effective Citizen Advocate," we review pending legislation.
The second 30 minutes are a legislative visit training so that you can learn or brush up on how to impactfully engage your senators, representatives, and their staff.
Come for all or part of the program! All registrants will receive a video of the training, slides, an advocacy toolkit, and additional background information.
A Virginia-based tech company will pay >$38k in penalties for posting a #discriminatory#job ad that only sought to hire White US citizens, the #Justice Dept announced.
Arthur Grand Technologies Inc, a firm that provides IT services, in March 2023 posted a job ad for a business analyst position on the hiring site Indeed that asked in a bolded note for “Only Born US Citizens [White] who are local within 60 miles from Dallas,” acc/to a DOJ news release. “Don’t share with candidates,” the ad read in brackets.
"Judge Carlton Reeves' latest vivisection of "qualified immunity"—which lets violent & corrupt cops escape accountability—is nested in a broader critique of the SC's cynical & selective reliance on "democracy" to nullify our civil rights.
Via Robyn Sanders (asst. Fed defender, PA)
9:34 PM · May 20, 2024
"In a 62-page scorcher, J. Reeves methodically incinerates #QualifiedImmunity (QI) as having "no basis in law" & being an "extra-constitutional affront." This opinion could finally spell the end for the doctrine. REQUIRED READING for all who yearn for accountability & #justice. 🧵
"Critically, J. Reeves emphasizes that QI "disproportionately bars justice for Black victims of government misconduct." The opinion is loaded with powerful footnotes documenting extensive research showing QI's egregious racially discriminatory impact."
"This decision is a landmark in both constitutional analysis and potential civil rights impact. I believe litigant and courts will be parsing this decision for years as the fate of QI is reconsidered."
As the semester has ended for most folks, I want to remind all disabled students about the US Office of Civil Rights. If you were discriminated against for your disability or denied an accommodation, you have 90 days since the incident to file a complaint.
Peter Beinart offers valuable analysis of the current student protest movement and how it illustrates "the way in which one protest movement feeds into another at a time of broader protest." The Civil Rights and anti-war demonstrations of the 1960s fed the subsequent activism for LGBTQ and women's rights. And the backdrop to the current campus protests is the BLM movement and its protests.
Matthew McManus writes that those who imagine that there was a pre-Trump iteration of the US right in which the right was moderate are indulging in fantasy.
The right has long been driven by the radical determination to turn back the tide of equal rights for minority groups and legislate the notion that some people are superior to others.
This is the same Bible that condones slavery.
"Religious traditionalists, particularly those among the Southern Baptist Convention, also opposed the federal government’s support for equality, although they got less press in the early years of that expansion. In their view, the Bible laid out hierarchical social arrangements, especially patriarchy. Government defense of women’s equality was a direct assault on their worldview." https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-16-2024?r=63j6s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email #MAGA#CivilRights#14thAmendment
#Albuquerque Is Throwing Out the Belongings of #Homeless People, Violating City Policy
The city has violated a court order and its own policies by discarding the personal property of thousands of homeless people, who have lost medications, birth certificates, IDs, treasured family photos and the ashes of loved ones.