[Ct-nfb] Disability and Civil Rights Groups Sue DeVos Over Investigation Rollbacks - The New York Times

[Jim McCollum]

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/us/politics/devos-education-civil-rights-lawsuit.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

Disability and Civil Rights Groups Sue DeVos Over Investigation Rollbacks
May 31, 2018

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. Officials in her department said revisions to its case-processing manual targeted a handful of individuals who had generated thousands of complaints that were straining the department’s resources.Mark Wilson/Getty Images
BALTIMORE — Three national civil rights organizations sued the Education Department on Thursday over new procedures that allow its Office for Civil Rights to dismiss complaints that it determines to be burdensome or a drain on the department’s resources.

The National Federation of the Blind, the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said that the department was “arbitrary and capricious” in making substantive revisions to its case-processing manual, which guides its handling of civil rights complaints, without giving the public notice, an explanation or a chance to comment.



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