Posted on 07/24/2011 2:17:08 PM PDT by Steelfish
In SF, A Move To Stop Using Criminal History
Employers, landlords would be banned from using priors in hiring, housing decision
Proponents say that with California under orders to reduce its prison population such a plan is necessary to help former inmates reintegrate and reduce the likelihood of repeat offenses. But others say that business owners have a right to be cautious in order to protect themselves and others.
Similar policies have been implemented by several states and more than twenty local governments across the nation.
San Francisco's proposal was floated by the city's Reentry Council — a group that helps adult convicts leaving jail or prison and includes representatives from the District Attorney's Office, the police department and the sheriff's department.
Public Defender Jeff Adachi, whose office is also represented on the council, said the panel found that employers and landlords were increasingly using background checks and eliminating candidates with criminal records.
"What we saw then is really a revolving door," he said. "A person would be released from custody, not be able to secure housing, not be able to find a job and wind up back in the (prison) system."
One in four adults in California — about 7 million people — has a misdemeanor or felony arrest or conviction record, according to the Reentry Council. And the state is under federal orders to reduce its prison population by more than 20 percent over the next two years.
Adachi said these factors add particular importance to removing barriers to employment and housing.
However, David Wasserman, a board member with the San Francisco Apartment Association, said courts have made it clear that owners are res
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Those people are nutz, wall off that city from the rest of the U S .
Good luck telling me not to consider past criminal activity when hiring somebody. Yeah, good luck with that, you liberal idiots.
Coming to a jurisdiction near you. Once the move to give felons and illegals the vote began, we all knew this was the end game. That and endless welfare payments and government bennies.
We should return to a society where only landowners get to vote. That would stop a lot of this nonsense.
MEMO TO SELF: Don’t even *think* about putting kids in a day care in san francisco...
Second Great Frisco Quake can’t come soon enough.
Let them do it as long as a law is also passed stating that employers and landlords can no longer be held responsible and sued for the actions of their employees and tenants. The “lawyers” would go crazy and put a boot on the throats of the commie ‘RATS while advising them that they need to knock off this kind of silly BS caused by doing too many recreational drugs.
Too bad Dan White is dead, he could demand a great job in SF City Hall.
A coalition was formed many years ago between two numerically important groups. Starting in the 1960’s the coalition commenced expanding in numbers and influence adding Mexicans and Asians. Today the coalition is composed of blacks, Non-Christians, Mexicans, Asians and homosexuals. The aforementioned largely vote as a bloc and is in the process of gaining absolute control. This move by San Francisco is the start of a drive to add felons to the coalition. By adding felons they can get their vote which is largely left leaning. The politicians will of course repeal any laws preventing felons from voting. There will be other rewards given the felon once they are in the “fold.” God Help Us!
What a MARVELOUS idea! I am 100% for it. We need at least one major metropolitan city to attract all the criminals; keeping the rest of us safer.
Companies will hire people to come into your home; rapists, robbers, murderers, pedophiles. Will the company be liable for not doing due diligence? I think they will; law not-withstanding. Somebody will be injured and lawyers and courts will seek the deepest pocket. This is more anti competitiveness on SF’s part.
The theory here is; the people in prison aren’t bad people, they just made bad choices. Now that they’re out they’ll make better choices.
I rented a home to and elderly seeming couple; in truth they were a ridden hard and put away wet late-fifties. Chain smoking and starting your first beer at 6:00 am will do that. Turns out they both have records and the sheriff deputies were there nightly, as he beat her. So, according to the newspaper, she called the deputies because Billy was beating her again. Three of them arrived. They noticed 49 pot plants. The Sherriff waited until midnight and sent in a 12 man SWAT team. I’m finally getting them out, but the lady told me Billy “put his fist through the wall in a few places.” Then, there’s the SWAT damage.
Excellent decision. All illegals and felons need to flock to SF.
>> Second Great Frisco Quake can’t come soon enough.
I fully expect that next one to be accompanied by fire and brimstone.
I’d have to agree with this. Every time I apply for a CEO job that pays over a million a year, they want to know about my prior history. I don’t think that’s fair. /S
>> A replay of Sodom and Gomorrah???
Well, let’s put it this way: if you’re on your way out of town on the 280, don’t look in your rearview mirror or you’ll turn into a BMW of salt. :-)
I’m not mad about it either...
Just give every illegal alien and criminal maps to San Fran, and you get rid of your local problems.
Abrham needs to get the heck out of San Fran already; I’m tired of waiting.
At my medical device company, they hired a contract purchasing manager. Thought he was a lttle strange, since he kept to himself and did not want to go to lunch with us eventhough he was invited. A year after the company folded, he murdered his estranged wife with an axe, waiting for her in the garage when she was leaving for work.
After he was arrested, come to find out he was in the Indiana Penitentery for twelve years prior, of attemped murder for stabbing his former girlfriend and her new husband.
Wondering what kind of background check this dude ever got.
By the way , his late estranged wife did not know he had been in prison, until after they got married and she had a child by him, no one on his side of the family let it be known. She found out from the former girlfriend and immediately started divorce proceedings. He murdered her eventhough she had a protective order.
She should have gotten a pistol permi.
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