FBI Accepts Panel’s List of Latino Agents to Be Promoted
FBI Director William S. Sessions has accepted the recommendation of a court-appointed panel that he promote 11 Latino agents in the aftermath of a discrimination suit against the bureau, a spokesman said Wednesday night.
The panel of three outside lawyers was created after a federal judge found in 1988 that the FBI systematically discriminated against Latino agents in assignments and promotions.
In the class-action suit joined by 311 of the FBI’s approximately 400 Latino agents, U.S. District Judge Lucius Bunton III of Midland, Tex., directed the bureau to end its “unsystematic, excessively subjective” method of promoting special agents.
Spokesman Mike Horton said Sessions could have appealed the panel’s selection of the agents to be promoted but decided not to.
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