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Firefighters Recruitment Citizens’ Committee created

Toledo: On October 13, 2010, Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, Inc. (ABLE) entered into a settlement agreement with the City of Toledo to resolve a dispute over a three-decade old Consent Decree addressing hiring practice of the Toledo Fire Department.

The settlement provides that the selection and hiring practices that had been required as part of the original Consent Decree in federal court will now become institutionalized as policy within the Civil Service Commission.

The settlement also provides for the creation of the Citizens’ Committee for Toledo Fire Fighter Recruitment on Outreach. The Committee will be made up of community organizations as well as fire department and city personnel and will be charged with advising the fire department on outreach and recruitment strategies to improve the number and quality of black and Latino applicants.

As part of the settlement agreement, the parties have agreed to allow the Court to end its oversight of the hiring and selection process by vacating the Consent Decree.

The Consent Decree was the result of a complaint, Brown v. Winkle, filed in 1972 alleging discrimination in the hiring practices of what was then a highly segregated City of Toledo Fire Department. Two years later, a Consent Decree was entered into establishing the process for the arduous task of remedying a history of segregation and denial of equal employment opportunities for blacks and Latinos in the fire department.

The City’s compliance with the terms of the Consent Decree was challenged by ABLE in July 2010 with the filing of a motion in federal court seeking to enforce provisions of a 1995 Order requiring a continuous recruitment program.

Once established, the Citizens Committee will be required to meet quarterly and will have the ability to review current outreach and recruitment strategies for more effective recruitment.

The Committee will examine the City’s effectiveness in recruiting minority applicants and will be able to offer strategies for education and basic-skills preparation to increase the success rate for minority applicants in the testing process.

Editor’s Note: ABLE did not challenge the Firefighters Class of 2010, even though only one Latino was part of the new class. See Current firefighter class lacks diversity, unlike previous classes of olde at https://laprensatoledo.com/Stories/2010/012210/Fire.htm

Also, Sole Latino member of Toledo’s fire class of 2010 carries on family tradition at: https://laprensatoledo.com/Stories/2010/011310/Firefighter.htm

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