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NY Times Editorial: Criminal Record Checks Making Census Workers Ineligible

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Editorial- NY Times 4-21-10 We Can?t Tell You Why The Census Bureau is hiring a million or more people to assist with the 2010 count. It is temporary work, but it pays well. With national unemployment at nearly 10 percent, it looks like an excellent opportunity. That is unless you are one of the nearly 50 million Americans with any arrest or conviction on record. A new class-action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of applicants who say they were unfairly turned down for census jobs based on an opaque screening policy that relies on F.B.I. checks for any criminal histories. Those checks are notoriously unreliable. A 2006 federal report found that half of them were inaccurate or out of date. The Census Bureau is vague about what makes someone ineligible...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 21, 2010 (boomark / email).