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Washington, DC, Becomes First Major City in US to Allow Full-Time Sikh American Police Officers

The Washington Metropolitan Police Department, the seventh largest police force in the nation, became the first major police department in the United States to explicitly and voluntarily allow Sikh Americans to serve as full-time, uniformed police officers while keeping their articles of faith.

TAKE ACTION: Tell Your Congressmen to Stop Racial Profiling

Today, Congress will take an important step in the fight to end racial profiling in our country. For the first time in ten years, the Senate will host a hearing on racial profiling. And SALDEF will be there.
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Sikh American Family Receives Death Threat

On February 28 a Sikh American family from Sterling, Virginia received a letter containing death threats addressed to ‘Turban Family’. This family has been the target of previous hate crimes as well. In 2003, while living in Gaithersburg, Maryland their home was vandalized with graffiti and they received two threatening letters. Then, in 2005, after moving to Leesburg, Virginia, they received two more death threats via mail.

SALDEF Conducts Diversity Training for Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Earlier this month, SALDEF conducted diversity trainings for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Over 150 members of the EEOC including attorneys, investigators, mediators, and staff were informed about the Sikh faith and religious practices through the course of these trainings. The presentations were conducted on February 1st and February 8th in the EEOC’s district offices of Philadelphia, PA and Los Angeles, CA, respectively.