Move comes after lawsuit over hiring practices that excluded women
Apr 14, 2021
HARRISBURG The Pennsylvania State Police will pay more than $2 million into a compensation fund and are changing physical fitness standards to settle a lawsuit over how the agency’s trooper-hiring practices ruled out otherwise qualified women.
The U.S. Justice Department announced the proposed settlement Tuesday of litigation that was launched seven years ago, leaving a federal judge in Harrisburg to give her final approval.
The police agency also has agreed to make it a priority to hire as many as 65 women who were affected by the prior fitness standards for entry-level trooper positions.
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That trend appears to be continuing without pause in 2021.
The Pennsylvania State Police announced this week that the Pennsylvania Instant Check System (PICS) set a record for activity in the first quarter of the year, making it the third straight quarter it has seen record-setting volume. Between the beginning of January and the end of March, there were 427,450 checks conducted. In the same period in 2020, 304,876 checks were conducted. In the final quarter of 2020, there were 420,581 checks conducted.
The robust sales of guns and ammunition in Pennsylvania is in keeping with national trends. January was the third-highest month on record for gun sales nationally, according to an analysis by
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