A district court has ruled that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which doesn’t like it when private employers balk at hiring people with criminal records, has to reveal its own internal policies in this area, which the agency had resisted. On the other hand, the Montgomery County, Md., public-school system has announced it wants to bring the racial makeup of its faculty in line with the racial makeup of its students (never mind the lack of any legal basis for this discrimination), and the New York Fire Department has said that it’s going to jettison a physical test for probationary firefighters, perhaps because of its “disparate impact” against women.