The New York State Civil Service Commission has withdrawn an employment announcement criticized by the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith for containing “unconstitutionally discriminatory restrictions.”
The announcement had indicated that applicants for Corrections Counselorship or Traineeships “must have ethnic identification with the Black or Spanish-speaking communities,” since the federal funds for the program were available “with the proviso that they (applicants) be members of the Black or Spanish-speaking communities.”
Commission chairman Ersa H. Poston, replying to ADL chairman Seymour Graubard’s assertion that the “proviso” was not federally designated but implemented by the State in “flagrant violation” of equal-opportunity law, wrote that a “reexamination” of the situation “has led to the withdrawal and cancellation of the announcement.”
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