Alameda County Sued Over Alleged Racial Quotas in Public Contracting

Alameda County Sued Over Alleged Racial Quotas in Public Contracting
Workers fix a pothole in Oakland, Calif., on April 29, 2013. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Brad Jones
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A California-based civil rights group sued Alameda County on July 25 for policies that allegedly grant racial preferences in government contracting.

Californians for Equal Rights Foundation and two individual co-plaintiffs, represented by the nonprofit Pacific Legal Foundation, filed the lawsuit in the Superior Court challenging two Alameda County public contracting programs that impose race-based preferences for minority-owned enterprises (pdf).