Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn In November 2021, the City Council of Des Moines, Iowa, unanimously passed a “Ban the Box” ordinance to make it “illegal and discriminatory” for employers to include criminal history questions on job applications and to inquire into criminal history or conduct criminal background checks before a conditional offer…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On June 18, 2021, the Iowa Supreme Court upheld a portion of a “Ban the Box” ordinance known as the “Fair Chance Initiative” passed in Waterloo, Iowa, that restricts when employers may inquire about the criminal history of job applicants but struck down restrictions on what types…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On October 7, 2019, Waterloo, Iowa, became the first city in the state to join the “Ban the Box” movement by passing an ordinance that makes asking job applicants about criminal records early in the hiring process an “unlawful discriminatory practice” for employers, according to a report…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On August 22, 2019, Iowa Auditor of State Rob Sand released a report on a special investigation of the Iowa Department of Public Safety (DPS) for the period July 1, 2016, through August 15, 2018, that revealed 5,817 licenses were issued during that time without nationwide background checks.…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On May 16, 2018, the Linn County Board of Supervisors adopted a “Ban the Box” resolution for inclusive hiring practices for County positions to demonstrate a “commitment to equal employment opportunity for otherwise qualified individuals with a prior criminal conviction,” according to a Civic Alert on County’s…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn With many courts considering the removal of identifiers such as date of birth (DOB) from public records to protect citizens from identity theft, Melissa Sorenson, Executive Director of the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS), has written a guest column for The Gazette entitled ‘Removing…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The University of Iowa will join the University of Northern Iowa and Iowa State University and include a questionnaire for criminal background checks on all student applications as soon as the 2016 school year, according to a KIMT News 3 report.
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