Posted on 10/17/2016 12:07:30 PM PDT by PROCON
A recent court filing indicates that the Washington State Attorney General’s Office believes that denying a prospective tenant with a felony conviction is racially discriminatory.
A member of the Attorney General’s Civil Rights Unit served a Consent Decree on Dobler Management Company, a property management firm in Tacoma, after conducting a simulated test on whether the landlord was illegally discriminating against potential tenants.
According to the briefing sent to KTTH’s Todd Herman, in May, the state asked a tester to follow up on a rental property advertisement on Craigslist, which said the apartment complex would automatically deny renters with a felony record. The state’s tester confirmed that the unit was still available and asked if he could apply for the unit despite having a felony conviction. The leasing consultant responded via email that a “felony would be an automatic denial.”
“In denying the tester, the leasing consultant did not consider when the conviction occurred, what the underlying conduct entailed or what the tester had done since the conviction,” the state wrote in a consent decree filed in Pierce County Superior Court.
The state explains that there is a discriminatory link between criminal history and restriction of housing:
(Excerpt) Read more at mynorthwest.com ...
One of the comments:
Is it still OK for a Gun Dealer to discriminate against felons in Washington?
Felons are a race? Isn’t that racist to say?
So basically he’s admitting blacks are more likely to be felons.
It appears the AG thinks that only “people of color” commit felonies.
when did felons become a race?
All I know is now I can move to WA and get a room. :)
Democrats are such racists. It’s in their blood. All down through thee years, it just keeps seeping out of them.
Mistake Number One. Never admit anything, just tell them we found someone else.
Maybe that’s what Obama meant by the “in our DNA” comment. His own party and similar ideologues.
Yes Felons are a race. They all come from the land of Felonitonia.
Only two posts. Pretty good.
5.56mm
How long before someone decides that Us White folks breathing free air is somehow racists.
Who knew?
btt
isn’t it racist to think all felons are black or a single ethnicity, (which would be necessary for racism to occur if you’re not renting to felon)?
I wonder why he doesn’t think it’s sexist. After all, the lions share of felons are male.
Washi to. State is where we planned to retire. Not a chance now that it’s being governed by lunatics.
Oh that would have happened long ago, if not for the 2nd Amendment.
Is it “RACIST” for the WA AG to insinuate that FELONS are mostly minorities?
Legal question: Would the landlord incur liability if he rents to a known felon who then perpetrates crimes on the other residents? Doesn’t he have a duty to somehow protect them, or at least warn them?
If he does have this liability, he’s in a Catch-22 situation where the government forces him to perform a prosecutable act, and then hangs him out to dry.
In product law, wouldn’t this be a known, hidden defect? In landlord-tenant law, wouldn’t this be analogous to allowing the building to have an unmitigated, known, unsafe situation?
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