The EEOC and its Republican Acting Chair Andrea Lucas are facing a lawsuit accusing them of overstepping agency authority with “an overly broad and vague” discrimination charge and probe alleging systematic racial bias in employment against a New Mexico public school district.
The commissioner-initiated charge Lucas filed in August 2024 lacked specific factual support, including information on the allegedly unlawful actions taken against Native American employees and job applicants, as well as when, how, why, and who was involved, the Board of Education of the Gallup-McKinley County Schools said in a complaint filed in the US District Court for the ...