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DOJ to Pay $22.6 Million to Settle Class-Action Sex Bias Suit by 34 Women Against FBI Academy

Sep 30, 2024, 02:27 PM

The U.S. Department of Justice has agreed to pay $22.6 million to settle a class-action lawsuit by 34 women alleging sexual discrimination at the FBI's agent training academy. The lawsuit claims that female recruits were wrongly dismissed from the program and routinely harassed by instructors with sexually charged comments. The settlement aims to address these allegations and resolve claims of sex bias at the FBI's training facility.