This probe, however, was set off by the publication by all banks in March of data on the race of high-interest borrowers, as required by a new amendment to an old law.
Our data journalist Caelainn Barr spent 11 months prying out 40 years' worth of data on the race and gender of victims that had never previously been available.
In the wake of the fatal police shooting of Sean Bell in November 2006, the New York Civil Liberties Union filed a request in court on Aug. 4 under the Freedom of Information law for data on the race of people shot by officers.
That tentative settlement includes a requirement that the Los Angeles Police Department, in an effort to assess the extent of racial profiling, collect data on the race of people who are stopped by officers.
The Bloomfield Police Department — which has begun collecting data on the race of drivers in traffic stops as of January 2016 — rejects the report's findings.
Walker supported further disenfranchizing the black citizens of his state by supporting Voter ID laws, and he ended a program there where police collected data on the race of the people stopped by officers even though police killings of Black Americans is one of the largest issues facing the country.
After the group filed a lawsuit, the police turned over data on the race of suspects shot by the police from 1997 through 2008, but not that of suspects whom the police fired at but missed.
Mr. Hendon praised Mr. Obama, however, for later winning passage of what some in Springfield called "the driving-while-black bill," which required the police to collect data on the race of drivers they stopped as a way to monitor racial profiling.
Accenture did just that on Tuesday, sharing internal data on the race and gender of its 48,000 U.S. employees.
Choudhury said unlike most states, Florida requires police to collect data on the race and ethnicity of those stopped for seat belt violations, but no one had analyzed that data until her group did.
The Canadian government doesn't collect data on the race and ethnicity of missing persons, but a new database compiled by independent researcher Maryanne Pearce documents 4,035 cases of missing and murdered women and girls, 883 – or nearly 25percentt – of which involve aboriginal women.
