- Florida AG James Uthmeier issued an investigative subpoena to the NFL as part of his probe into whether the league’s Rooney Rule and related diversity hiring policies violate Florida law.
- According to reports, the subpoena commands the NFL to appear at the AG’s office and seeks documents including diversity reports, coaching census data, and demographic surveys reflecting the race and sex composition of team coaching staffs from 2017 to the present.
- The subpoena follows the AG’s recent warning letter challenging the Rooney Rule, which requires teams to interview candidates from underrepresented groups for certain coaching and leadership roles, and comes after the NFL updated its website language describing the policy.
- As previously reported, AG Uthmeier’s March letter warned that failure to stop enforcing the Rooney Rule and similar policies for Florida teams could result in a civil rights enforcement action.