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By: From the comments: arrestees stay out? - Overlawyered

From the comments: arrestees stay out? - Overlawyered — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 05:30:24 +0000

[…] Commenter Gitarcarver on yesterday’s item about how some in the Charlotte Police Department have talked about designating “public safety zones” where persons who have previously been arrested would be forbidden to go: […]

By: MattS

MattS — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 19:26:44 +0000

In reply to gitarcarver. It make as much sense as anything else our government has done in the last 50 years.

By: gitarcarver

gitarcarver — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 15:55:03 +0000

RE: Charlotte “Safety” Zones.

The City wants to make these zones based on arrests (not convictions.)

At the same time, an employer cannot ask whether a person has been arrested. Of course, there is now the push for “ban the box” which means an employer cannot ask about a conviction.

The City wants to say it can ban people and arrest people from public property, but those private companies can’t even ask about those convictions (much less arrests) during the initial hiring process.

Yeah.

THAT makes sense.