If Jay Jones wins the November election through a write-in campaign, Cam Hunt wouldn’t necessarily have to accept the result without question. Alabama law provides a process for contesting elections. But a successful challenge would require more than pointing to something questionable about the campaign. That possibility raises an interesting question in Lee County, where…
Voters in Barbour County will have several decisions to make when they head to the polls on November 3. While much of the attention across Alabama has been on the governor’s race and control of Congress, some of the decisions closer to home deserve just as much attention. Barbour County includes several small towns and…
There’s something unusual about the effort to return Jay Jones to the Lee County sheriff’s office. A Republican sheriff who lost his own party’s primary is now receiving support from people who don’t necessarily agree with his politics, or even with each other. Jones lost the May Republican primary to Cam Hunt by 307 votes….
I’ve never had a problem with organizations using confidentiality agreements for legitimate purposes. Businesses have information they need to protect, and there are plenty of circumstances where an agreement restricting disclosure makes sense. But I have a problem when those same agreements are used to prevent somebody from talking about sexual abuse. As of October…
A police officer already has plenty of information they can’t release. Criminal investigations, confidential personnel records, protected personal information, and security details aren’t things officers should be discussing with just anybody. Those restrictions come with the job, and there’s a good reason for them. So when a city decides its officers need to sign an…
There’s something interesting about a company being able to tell the public it tests its artificial intelligence for discrimination, while the results of certain tests remain protected from disclosure in a lawsuit alleging that the technology discriminates. That’s the situation in the ongoing case against Workday, whose automated hiring software can determine which applicants ever…
After nearly three decades as sheriff of Lee County, Jay Jones lost the May 19 Republican primary to former deputy Cam Hunt by just 307 votes. Hunt received 9,301 votes to Jones’s 8,994, according to the unofficial results. Jones first took office in January 1999. He had spent nearly thirty years building his career, his…
Jay Jones has served as sheriff of Lee County since January 1999, following his election in 1998. Nearly three decades in office gives him a substantial record to campaign on, along with relationships and experience that a challenger can’t easily match. But it also gives voters nearly three decades of decisions to examine, and former…
The lawsuit against Workday began as a challenge to software that can determine which job applicants ever reach a human recruiter. Now, the case is expanding beyond its original allegations of race, age, and disability discrimination to include claims involving sex discrimination and California employment law. On March 6, U.S. District Judge Rita F. Lin…
Software can do a lot more than organize job applications. It can decide which applications anybody bothers looking at, and that’s the part of Mobley v. Workday I find more interesting than the AI label. Derek Mobley and other applicants allege that Workday’s hiring technology scored, sorted, ranked or screened applicants in ways that discriminated…