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LAKE COUNTY, IL The results are in from the Lake County Sheriff s Office s distracted driving traffic safety campaign, which ran the entire month of April.
During the campaign, sheriff s deputies issued 79 cellular phone usage violation citations and 88 speeding citations. Statistics show us that texting while driving is dangerous and often times deadly, Lake County Sheriff John Idleburg said. Please wait until you are not driving to send that message or post that status update – it is simply not worth the potential consequences of doing it while driving.
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The Lake County Sheriff s Office joined with state and local law enforcement and highway safety partners for this enforcement effort, according to a news release. The Illinois distracted driving campaign is funded with federal traffic safety funds administered by the Illinois Department of Transportation.
Jennifer A. Holmes, a lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which has urged the court to take the case, says she hopes the conversations taking place nationally will push the justices in that direction.
Doing so gives the court an “opportunity to show that they’re not insensitive to issues of race,” Holmes said. And courts are all the time confronting workplace discrimination claims involving use of the racial slur, she said. The question for the justices, she said, is just whether someone who experiences an isolated instance of the racial slur can “advance their case beyond the beginning stage.”
Supreme Court consider hearing a case on most offensive word
If the justices agree, they could decide whether the use of one word alone allows an employee to sue under Title VII of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Author: JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press Published: 8:09 AM CDT May 13, 2021 Updated: 8:09 AM CDT May 13, 2021
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Editor s Note: Includes references throughout to racist language.
Robert Collier says that during the seven years he worked as an operating room aide at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, white nurses called him and other Black employees “boy. Management ignored two large swastikas painted on a storage room wall. And for six months, he regularly rode an elevator with the N-word carved into a wall.
State boosting EV charging spots
Darren Iozia
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Those driving along interstates in Illinois will see more signs soon for electric vehicle charging stations.
Interstates 39, 55, 70, 74, 80, 90 and 94 have been selected by the Federal Highway Administration as part of the 145,000 miles nationwide designated for promotion of alternative fuels, according to the Illinois Department of Transportation.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker said he is committed to having 750,000 electric vehicles on the road by 2030. In the coming weeks, blue Alternative Fuels Corridor signs will start going up. Darren Iozia