Workplace violence Lawsuits filed Shootings have small-business owners Two Md. families join other accusers keyed on recognizing warning signs. 7A against maker of Roundup weed killer. 8A Wednesday, August 28, 2019 Volume 130 | Number 228 TheDailyRecord.com Maryland’s trusted source of business, legal and government news for 130 years. Bias lawsuit filed against Baltimore Co. by DOJ Screening tool allegedly excludes black applicants BY HEATHER COBUN
[email protected] The U.S. Department of Justice filed an employment discrimination suit against Baltimore County on Tuesday, alleging the county police department uses a screening tool that disproportionately excluded African American applicants. The complaint, filed in U.S. Dis- THE DAILY RECORD/FILE PHOTO trict Court in Baltimore, claims the Despite some recent evidence of improvement in Baltimore’s residential housing market, a new survey concludes that it’s almost the worst among major U.S. cities. department’s practices violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and seeks a court order requiring the department to use procedures that comply with the law and provide remedies to pre- viously rejected applicants. Scraping the bottom County Executive Johnny Olsze- wski Jr. said Tuesday that the county had stopped using the test in question, Survey concludes that only Detroit’s housing market is worse than Baltimore’s though it continues to deny liability for the actions of prior administra- BY ADAM BEDNAR one of the worst in the nation. decade of economic expansion and a tions. He took office in December.
[email protected] Baltimore placed No. 293 out of corresponding boost to the Baltimore “A law enforcement agency 300 markets Wallethub researchers metro area’s real estate market.