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On May 15, 2014, the City of Baltimore, Maryland, became the tenth U.S. jurisdiction to “ban the box”. Although Baltimore city council members tout the new ordinance as the most progressive law banning the box in the U.S., the ordinance is closer to the…
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 jobs, the law requires private employers, city contractors, and some housing providers to consider applicants on their merits…
The House approved a bill to ban employers from asking about a job candidate’s criminal history on an application. The bill is a watered-down version from what lawmakers first proposed. The original House Bill would have prohibited employers from conducting a…
Koch Industries, Inc.’s announcement that it will remove conviction history questions from its job applications is the latest sign that momentum for criminal justice reform and fair-hiring practices is building on both sides of the political aisle and across the…
Criminal records are surfacing in screeners’ reports even after being purged from government databases. There is no national data on how often expunged records are reported by background-check companies, because expunged records by definition no longer exist….
Louisville has joined the ranks of cities to enact an ordinance prohibiting employers from asking job applicants about their criminal backgrounds. The bill applies only to the city and its private vendors. According to Tom Birchfield, a managing partner at…
Nationwide, over 50 cities and counties have now taken the critical step of removing unfair barriers to employment in their hiring policies. Widely known as “ban the box,” these initiatives remove the question on the job application about an…
Mayor Gregory A. Ballard recently signed an ordinance that generally prohibits the Consolidated City of Indianapolis and Marion County (hereinafter, “City”) and its vendors from inquiring into an applicant’s criminal history until after the…
Background checks are supposed to weed out the questionable employees, and, in most cases, they do. Still, it doesn’t catch crimes committed after they’re hired. This loophole allowed a sex offender to be employed around children. Seattle Public Schools…
While criminal background checks are a common part of the hiring process for many companies, there has been legal pushback lately with federal and state authorities both launching cases against employers they say are using the checks unfairly. The thrust of complaints…