The State Probation Commission has adopted a resolution opposing the use of a religious quota system in the hiring of probation officers for the Domestic Relations Court, it was announced today by Charles D. Osborne, its chairman. The original protest against this system was filed by the American Jewish Congress, which has a suit pending before the State Commission Against Discrimination.
The practice in the Children’s Court, a division of the Domestic Relations Court, has been to refer children coming under the court’s jurisdiction to probation officers of the same faith as the children involved. Since juvenile case loads broke down to 50 percent Catholics, 45 percent Protestants and five percent Jews, the probation officers were hired in a similar proportion. This practice the AJC opposed as discriminatory.
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