Groups Seek LGBT Protections In Federal Government Profiling Policy Changes

BuzzFeed - “[T]he harms of ineffective and un-American profiling are of clear concern and importance to the LGBT community,” more than two dozen groups tell Attorney General Eric Holder. A BuzzFeed News exclusive. Gary Cameron / Reuters WASHINGTON — The Justice Department's long-anticipated new policy for law enforcement's use of racial and other profiling should include LGBT people within its protections, more than two dozen LGBT advocacy groups wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday. More than that, though, the groups also told Holder, the new policy should apply to any law enforcement agencies that get federal funding. "Given the reality that most profiling and targeting of individuals on the basis of their actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity/expression occurs by state and local agencies, not including this aspect in the guidance would be a significant omission," they write in the letter, which was provided exclusively to BuzzFeed News