DOJ Settles Race Bias Claims With Mississippi County

Mealey's (March 5, 2021, 10:31 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on March 2 that it reached a settlement agreement with Tallahatchie County, Miss., in a lawsuit filed the same day in a Mississippi federal court accusing the county’s sheriff of intentionally discriminating against Black deputy sheriffs by paying them less than similarly situated white deputy sheriffs....

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