Blog Archive : January 2006

On January 5, 1976, Judge Prentice Marshall issued the final decision in a series of consolidated cases challenging the employment practices of the Chicago Police Department as discriminatory against minorities and women in hiring, promotion, assignment and discipline. In the late 1950s, when African Americans were 25% of the population of Chicago, Blacks represented 25% of the p...

EOP persuaded the Illinois Department of Human Rights to redact the names of workers who sue for arrest record discrimination from the IDHR’s published opinions. The IDHR’s publication of the workers’ names and the details of their arrests had deterred workers from complaining of arrest record discrimination.