The American Jewish Congress has protested the barring of press and public from hearings next Friday by the State Probation Commission in New York City on the practice of maintaining religious quotas in the hiring of probation officers in the Children’s Court. The AJC, which made public its protest against the closed hearings in a letter today, had earlier complained against the quota system of hiring probation officers. The quotas were established in proportion to the percentage of children who come under the court’s jurisdiction, estimated at: Catholics, 50 percent; Protestants 45 percent, and Jews, five percent.
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