re: Los Angeles passes "ban the box"- firms now cannot ask about crim record on apps

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I absolutely support this.

The felony label on people should be removed once their sentence is paid if their crime was nonviolent.

The label costs our country literally hundreds of millions of dollars due to lower economic ceilings for those labeled with the scarlet "f", and leads to the high recidivism rate in our country.

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I'd prefer we allow employers hire who they want based on the criteria they want.

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quote: I absolutely support this. The felony label on people should be removed once their sentence is paid if their crime was nonviolent. The label costs our country literally hundreds of millions of dollars due to lower economic ceilings for those labeled with the scarlet "f", and leads to the high recidivism rate in our country. I'd prefer we allow employers hire who they want based on the criteria they want.

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So you'd like to see the current race, creed, sex, age, national origin statutes removed as well?

Whatever. Can still do background checks, right?

And what's to stop the felin from lying? He's they're a felin remember? I didn't say it would do harm I said attempt to do harm. It's like everything els he does it leans in the direction of dividing ppl.

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what's to stop the felin from lying? He's they're a felin remember? I didn't say it would do harm I said attempt to do harm. It's like everything els he does it leans in the direction of dividing ppl.

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Nothing, just like nothing stopped them from lying when it was allowed in the application. I know a felon that does this, caise otherwise he'd never get an interview. His crime was 15 years ago and was complete bullshite. He beat a mans arse that was groping his wife, the guy was the cousin of the sherrrif. He pled to a felony to avoid potential 10 year sentence.

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No, but do you want a person who gets in a fight at the age of 20 and pleads to a felony assault charge to

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Are you aware of how the legal system works? Do you really think you get a felony assault charge for getting into a bar fight? The only way you're going to get a sustained felony charge and conviction if the fight you speak of is a guy using a deadly weapon and seriously injuring or killing another person. It's not two guys throwing punches in a parking lot.

And I don't recall saying that that person should never be able to get a job again. But if companies don't want to hire that person, they're within their rights. They should have as much knowledge about the person as possible before making an offer of employment. rightfully so. I don't think we should be hiding information from

2 problems I see with your story. 1 every application has a few lines below the boxes to explain what your crime was and if your friend explains he got into a fight because someone harassed his wife I'm sure ppl would understand. 2. Judges don't give a shite about what a sherif says or who he's related too. I'm lucky enough to know both judges and our sheriff well and unless you live in a one horse town this doesn't happen. If your friend was facing that bad of a sentence chances are he didn't just subdue the guy with physical force he probly went overboard and that's on him.

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Does that mean pedo's can now teach kindergarten? Does that mean background checks can't be run also?

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Jesus Christ. You guys are full on nuts.

Employers can still run criminal background checks on people before hiring. It's just that a lot of perfectly good people with felonies can't even get an interview.

As long as this is a local government issue I have no problems with it provided that background checks cans still be run before the actual hiring. I don't like it at the federal level though. However I dislike most regulations and laws at the federal level.