The New Jersey Legislature has been considering “ban the box” legislation since February 2013. Amidst opposition from business groups...
More Private employers in Illinois with 15 or more employees will have to revamp their job applications to remove questions about criminal background...
More After years of abortive efforts, the D.C. Council voted to give job applicants with criminal records new protections against discrimination from...
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Though some business leaders contend that background checks protect employers from hiring potentially dangerous or untrustworthy applicants...
More A former research administrator at UC Berkeley who had a prior conviction for embezzlement allegedly stole “tens of thousands of...
More Collateral damage occurs in any war, including America’s “War on Crime.” The expansion of the nation’s criminal justice...
More “Check ‘yes’ if ever been convicted of a felony.” That one box on job applications was the center of some heated...
More Madison Mayor Paul Soglin and Ald. Maurice Cheeks introduce a resolution that would direct the city human resources director and the city attorney...
More ‘Ban the Box,’ the name of a measure that would prohibit most public agencies in Delaware from requiring job applicants to disclose...
More The State of Nebraska became the 11th state in the country last week to remove questions about an applicant’s criminal record from...
More On May 15, 2014, the City of Baltimore, Maryland, became the tenth U.S. jurisdiction to “ban the box”. Although Baltimore city council...
More San Francisco is again in the vanguard of the ban-the-box movement. This time it’s called the Fair Chance Ordinance, and instead of city...
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