06/01/2026
Your AI hiring tool may already be a legal liability in California.
California’s automated-decision-system rules took effect October 1, 2025 under FEHA. If you have not reviewed your screening tools since then, you are running exposed.
What changed:
Any screening or scoring tool is covered — not just “AI.”
Four-year record retention is now required.
Bias testing is the evidence that protects you.
Four moves this week: ✓ Inventory every tool that touches a hiring or promotion decision ✓ Confirm four-year retention is actually turned on ✓ Get each vendor’s latest bias-testing analysis in writing ✓ Build a documented human-review step into automated screening
You do not need a legal department to get this right. You need a plan.
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