District Court, claiming discrimination against minority applicants for entry-level jobs as correctional officers at the state prison. Department of Justice in 2014 sued the Department of Corrections and the state in U.S. In weighing the balance between the identification of these private citizens, along with the amount of money each received, against the public's right to disclosure I have determined that these individual's privacy rights take precedence." "The individuals who received the money are claimants who failed the DOC correctional officer entrance exam at some time between 20 and filed for compensation with the Department of Justice under the terms of the agreement. 5, 2019, letter to the Journal explaining the decision to withhold the details of the payments, agency lawyer Kathleen Kelly, executive legal counsel to the R.I. When pressed for more information on who received the state payments ranging from $286.63 to $3,096.36, Corrections officials said the state doesn't know how many people actually received the money because the determinations were all made by the Department of Justice - and even if it knew who received what, "disclosure would be an unwarranted invasion of privacy." The number of payments far exceeds the number of potentially affected applicants cited in the settlement agreement. 14 for a breakdown of who received the $380,419 in recent settlement payments, the Department of Corrections this past Thursday provided a list of 251 payments on a spreadsheet with no names attached, only initials of first and last names.
Department of Justice alleging that hiring practices at the state prison discriminated against blacks and Hispanics. PROVIDENCE - Rhode Island has in recent weeks paid out hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to settle a 2014 lawsuit by the U.S.
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