Will limiting background checks make housing fairer?
Excerpted from a VOX article by Rachel M. Cohen Every year, more than 600,000 people leave US state and federal prisons. Then they need to find a place to live. Researchers […]
Criminal history may soon be actual history
Excerpted from a Riverdale Press story by Joseph De La Cruz Background checks can make or break someone. Especially if that someone has a criminal history. Such checks may already […]
New lawsuit serves as reminder of new trend in employer grooming policies
The old saying “Get a haircut kid,” may have been popular during the 1960s, but today it could cause problems in the workplace. A suit filed last week in San […]
Oakland bans criminal background checks on renters
Excerpted from US News by Trevor Bach California’s affordable housing nightmare is well known: More than 40% of residents are now classified as housing cost-burdened, the highest proportion of any […]