NEWS AND VIEWS
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...

Eric Ellman
November 1, 2021
On October 28, 2021, the EEOC announced an initiative to ensure that artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging tools used in...

Eric Ellman
May 12, 2021
Last month, to coincide with Second Chances Month, the Brookings-AEI Working Group on Criminal Justice Reform issued a report, A better...
Eric Ellman
December 12, 2019
As noted by a Hunton blog, “Dollar General and the [EEOC] settled a six-year-old Title VII lawsuit. The EEOC brought its...
Eric Ellman
May 11, 2017
A second blog post will follow about some new work being done by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) that...
Eric Ellman
March 5, 2017
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...
Eric Ellman
June 29, 2016
There was a positive development this week in Texas v. EEOC. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit reversed and...
Eric Ellman
October 1, 2015
With the recent passing of baseball legend, Yogi Berra, it seems fitting to use one of his more colorful phrases to...
Eric Ellman
August 25, 2015
CDIA filed a comment with the U.S. Department of Labor in connection with proceedings that could make it harder for background checks to...
Eric Ellman
July 30, 2015
President Barack Obama announced that he would nominate Victoria Lipnic to serve another term on the EEOC. Lipnic, who received a recess...
Eric Ellman
May 13, 2015
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),...