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Data for Good: Stopping a Terrorist Attack
  • November 29, 2023
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An OpEd in the Wall Street Journal recently highlighted the power of data to stop terrorist attacks. That’s good. But, legislative...

Data Helps Catch Predators
  • November 28, 2023
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How does a police department locate a “dangerous sexual predator using only the perpetrator’s first name and a street name the...

Data Helps Prevent Medicaid Dis-enrollment
  • November 12, 2023
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Millions of otherwise eligible Medicaid consumers are at risk of being disenrolled only because there is no good way for the...

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Eric Ellman
November 1, 2021
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EEOC Launches AI Initiative
On October 28, 2021, the EEOC announced an initiative to ensure that artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging tools used in...
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Eric Ellman
May 12, 2021
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Brookings, AEI Issue Essays on Second Chances and Incorrect Assumptions about Background Checks
Last month, to coincide with Second Chances Month, the Brookings-AEI Working Group on Criminal Justice Reform issued a report, A better...
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Eric Ellman
December 12, 2019
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After Six Years, Dollar General and the EEOC Settle
As noted by a Hunton blog, “Dollar General and the [EEOC] settled a six-year-old Title VII lawsuit. The EEOC brought its...
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Eric Ellman
May 11, 2017
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U.S. Civil Rights Commission, looking back and looking forward
A second blog post will follow about some new work being done by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) that...
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Eric Ellman
March 5, 2017
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CDIA Opposes a Bill in Connecticut That Would Limit Employment Screening
A bill is being heard tomorrow in the Connecticut Joint Committee on the Judiciary that would require Connecticut employers to adhere the EEOC guidance on...
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Eric Ellman
June 29, 2016
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EEOC Pays the Price for Messing with Texas
There was a positive development this week in Texas v. EEOC. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit reversed and...
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Eric Ellman
October 1, 2015
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Its déjà vu all over again at the EEOC
With the recent passing of baseball legend, Yogi Berra, it seems fitting to use one of his more colorful phrases to...
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Eric Ellman
August 25, 2015
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CDIA Comments to Labor Department
CDIA filed a comment with the U.S. Department of Labor in connection with proceedings that could make it harder for background checks to...
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Eric Ellman
July 30, 2015
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EEOC Commissioner Lipnic Renominated
President Barack Obama announced that he would nominate Victoria Lipnic to serve another term on the EEOC. Lipnic, who received a recess...
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Eric Ellman
May 13, 2015
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The EEOC Secures Favorable Ruling Over Discovery Of The Government’s Employment Practices
As noted in a SeyfarthShaw blog, In EEOC v. DolGenCorp, LLC d/b/a Dollar General, No. 13-CV-4307 (N.D. Ill. May 5, 2015),...
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