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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Brooklyn: Firefighters’ Group Seeks to Join Lawsuit

Brooklyn: Firefighters’ Group Seeks to Join Lawsuit
A fraternal order of black firefighters filed court papers yesterday for its effort to join a lawsuit in which the federal Justice Department has accused the city of inadvertently discouraging blacks and Hispanics from joining the Fire Department. Lawyers for the organization, the Vulcan Society, filed papers in federal District Court in Brooklyn seeking to join the lawsuit, which argues that a written exam used by the city in 1999 and 2002 to screen new employees included questions that did not measure someone’s ability to fight fires. The city, while acknowledging that the department is primarily white, has said it has taken steps to encourage diversity.

 



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