Cracking the case. A federal jury finds diabetes discrimination at the FBI.

摘要

When Jeff Kapche, 41, was denied a job at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, he was no stranger to the obstacles that people with diabetes can face. He had already fought a Texas police department for denying him a job because of his diabetes (he won, too). And he'd heard from people all over the country who were inspired by his fight-from an Indianapolis Internal Revenue Service agent to a Forest Service officer in Georgia. Kapche, who has type 1 diabetes, is a detective with the sheriff's office in Fort Bend County, Texas. He had always dreamed of working for the FBI, and in 2002, he finally applied, at the urging of FBI field agents who had come to his department to work on a federal case. He would make a great special agent, they told him. But it wasn't the grueling physical exams, tough aptitude tests, and extensive interviews that kept him from getting the job. It was his diabetes. Some seven years after applying to the FBI, Kapche finally scored a victory, winning a civil suit against the bureau in U.S. District Court.