What Civil Rights Act 1964 Title VI - 42 USC 2000d Federal Financial Assistance Nondiscrimination requires
Section 2000d of title 42 of the United States Code, codifying section 601 of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Public Law 88-352, enacted 2 July 1964, 78 Stat. 252), prohibits any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance from excluding any person from participation in, denying the benefits of, or subjecting any person to discrimination on the ground of race, color, or national origin. Sections 2000d-1 through 2000d-7 implement and enforce the prohibition by directing every federal agency administering financial assistance to issue rules, regulations, and orders of general applicability subject to presidential approval; conditioning continued federal funding on documented compliance; preserving private rights of action for intentional discrimination; and waiving sovereign immunity for state defendants. The Title VI framework reaches federally funded education, healthcare, housing, transportation, social services, and law-enforcement assistance programs, and is interpreted by the Department of Justice, the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, and other federal agencies under their respective regulatory codifications (28 CFR Part 42, 34 CFR Part 100, 45 CFR Part 80, and equivalents). For AI systems deployed by federally funded entities, Title VI compliance requires that algorithmic decisions affecting access to benefits or services do not produce disparate impacts on protected groups without legally sufficient justification, and that data governance, model validation, and human review controls evidence the absence of intentional discrimination and the mitigation of unjustified disparate impact.
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Primary source: https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/42/2000d
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- 42 USC 2000d (Prohibition against exclusion from participation in, denial of benefits of, and discrimination under federally assisted programs) https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/2000d
- Civil Rights Act of 1964 Title VI, Public Law 88-352, 78 Stat. 252, enacted 2 July 1964
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