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AP: EEOC chief shifts focus to investigating DEI but the methods provoke an outcry

April 3. 2025


Executive Director Noreen Farrell is featured in an Associated Press article about EEOC Acting Chief Andrea Lucas’s recent actions attacking DEI programs in workplaces.

“This isn’t how the EEOC works. No single commissioner — not even the Chair — has the authority to send threatening letters demanding private information from employers,” said Noreen Farrell, director of Equal Rights Advocates, one of the civil rights organizations that signed onto the response led by the National Women’s Law Center. “The EEOC Chair can’t just rewrite decades of settled civil rights law with a hastily written memo.”

The article was syndicated more than 300 times—including by PBS, The Daily Mail, NPR, Los Angeles Daily News, and Newsday— reaching a broad audience with this important information.

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