Johnc Brittain News Today

Local offices honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....

Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion of a 2020 decision protecting LGBTQ employees from workplace discrimination that the landmark ruling does not apply to school policies on transgender youths' use of bathrooms and locker rooms. Nonetheless, lower courts have ruled in favor of transgender students by striking down school restrictions on restrooms and locker rooms and upholding policies that support students' sexual identities.

Universities are searching for ways to maintain racial quotas ahead of a likely Supreme Court decision blocking affirmative action.

This hour on Where We Live, hear from John C. Brittain, one of the original attorneys on the Sheff v. O'Neill case. Plus, Waterbury Bridge to Success Executive Director Althea Marshall Brooks discusses her work with local districts and the state.