The director of equity at the Secret Service calls it a “mission imperative” and the “ultimate goal” to spread DEI within the agency, with the agency hosting seminars on “respectful use of pronouns.”
The executive director of the Secret Services’ Office of Equity Loucious Hires III discussed diversity, equity and inclusion, “a topic that is difficult for some to talk about,” on the official government podcast “Standing Post” in February 2023. The agency said it was striving to be the “gold standard” of DEI in a recruitment brochure that same year.
During the podcast, the equity director outlined how every action at the Secret Service should be informed by DEI and claimed the ideology makes the organization stronger. Every employee should consider how every action is reflective of equity, according to the director.
“I could talk on and on what the agency is doing to promote diversity, equity and inclusion… DEI is every action every day,” he said. “So the opportunity for improvement for every employee within the Secret Service is to ask themselves, ‘What action are you doing every day?’”