EEOC Presses School District That Separately Sued Commission (1)

The EEOC asked a federal court to require a New Mexico school district make two administrators available for interviews in its investigation of a discrimination charge that’s already been challenged by the county system in another court case.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed the subpoena enforcement action Thursday in the US District Court for the District of New Mexico as part of its probe into the Gallup-McKinley County Schools stemming from the charge issued by Andrea Lucas, now the EEOC’s acting chair.

The district of roughly 1,800 employees is challenging the 2024 charge in a separate lawsuit filed Aug. ...