Posted on 11/22/2016 10:49:50 AM PST by TigerClaws
President Obama’s Justice Department is penalizing the Denver Sheriff Department for making U.S. citizenship a requirement for applicants.
The sheriff’s department will now have to pay a $10,000 fine for its hiring practices in 2015 and 2016. Additionally, the DOJ is requiring them to comb through old applications for those who were disqualified for being a non-citizen and consider those people for future positions.
“The Justice Department’s investigation found that from approximately Jan. 1, 2015, until approximately March 23, 2016, the Denver Sheriff Department discriminated based on citizenship status by requiring applicants for deputy sheriff positions to be U.S. citizens and publishing job postings with U.S. citizenship requirements, in violation of the INA,” the DOJ wrote in a statement.
“The INA’s anti-discrimination provision prohibits employers from limiting jobs to U.S. citizens except where the employer is required to do so by law, regulation, executive order or government contract. The Denver Sheriff Department was not subject to one of the INA’s exceptions.”
The settlement also requires that the sheriff’s department train its human resources employees on the INA’s anti-discrimination provision and change its policies to comply with those requirements.
“The Denver Sheriff Department maintains its commitment to treat all people with dignity and respect, and is proud to have one of the most diverse workplaces in Colorado,” sheriff’s spokesman Simon Crittle told The Denver Post.
“While we didn’t commit this violation intentionally, we accept responsibility and are taking steps to clarify policy and amend language in hiring documents.”
The crap employers go through in these compliance issues is immense.
I can’t wait for 60 days from now when we have a real president. I hope this fine will be waived and this stupid requirement will be repealed. Law enforcement in America should be a job for US citizens only.
Cheap fine and well worth it.
Hopefully this crud will end soon.
Ask for a refund Jan 21.
This is a prime example of the fed.gov insanity that must be stopped!
The idiot in the White House not only castigates the sheriff for hiring American, he fines their office.
But not to worry - obama has sworn he’ll ‘keep an eye out’ on Trump after the little pissant Marxist would-be dictator leaves office.
Very reassuring.
What a tool.
Just adding to Trump’s “To Un-Do” list.
Non citizens or illegal immigrants. Let’s be really specific.
wow. I thought that being a citizen was a requirement in law enforcement.
Of course citizens should be hired ahead of foreigners, especially when taxpayer money is involved. This is one of many efforts by the Obama administration to harm the America people.
Insanity prevails for another 2 months.
I disagree. Legal immigrants should be eligible too. Especially if they have permanent resident status and/or are in the process of becoming citizens.
Not only Hillary, but the entire Traitorobama regime, including the DOJ, needs to be inestigated, indicted, and prosecuted by President Trump’s DOJ.
The crazy leftist fascist administration of Obama!
Tell ‘em the check will be in the mail on 21 Jan.
I despise imam jug-ears and will stand in line to piss on hid grave!
Just a few more weeks and we won’t have to tolerate this horsesh-t any longer.
* hid= his!
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