🏥 Penn Medicine halts DEI initiative

⚖️ Arbitration Gives Fired Cops Their Jobs Back

Philadelphia’s Citizens Police Oversight Commission found that 85% of fired officers were reinstated by an arbiter between 2022 and 2024. While police commissioners have complained about the arbitration process that leads to fired officers being reinstated, the Fraternal Order of Police union claims commissioners were too quick to dismiss officers without due process. [🔒 Inquirer]

❌ Penn ‘Pauses' DEI Initiative

Penn Medicine recently removed webpages for its Anti-Racism Committee—without input from committee members—until the Daily Pennsylvanian student newspaper inquired about it. Committee members criticized the university for a lack of participation and financial support for their work, and said its DEI activities had been effectively paused. Given that Trump is targeting DEI in academia, the future of Penn’s other DEI initiatives are now unclear. [Daily Pennsylvanian]

🚰 Is There Lead in Your Pipes?

The Philadelphia Water Department sent about 500,000 letters to customers warning that there could be lead in their pipes. While the city says it doesn’t use lead in its mains, the makeup of service lines remain unknown. Five percent of homes are estimated to have lead pipes and PWD is offering free water testing to property owners. [🎧 City Cast Philly, CBS Philly]

⛸️ Philly Figure Skating Club Members Among Airline Crash Victims

The Philadelphia Skating Club & Humane Society released a statement confirming that some members of the organization died in Wednesday’s aircraft collision in Washington, D.C. A third of the passengers of the commercial plane were involved in competitive figure skating. [🔒Inquirer, 🎧City Cast DC]

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