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What Businesses Need to Know About Ban the Box Laws

What Businesses Need to Know About Ban the Box Laws

What is the ban the box movement, and how is it changing hiring practices nationwide? This in-depth guide will get you up to speed with all the key facts.

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The Fair Chance Act and Ban the Box Legislation Blog Post

The Fair Chance Act and Ban the Box Legislation

All Federal and State LawsOver the past decade, few trends in background checks have been more notable than the wave of ban the box legislation.

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Are Ban the Box Regulations Helping or Hurting Minority Workers? Blog Post

Are "Ban the Box" Regulations Helping or Hurting Minority Workers?

Across America, more than half of the states have adopted a "ban the box" policy. Aimed at removing questions about criminal history from job applicat...

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Ban the Box Reaches Rental Applications in Detroit Blog Post

Ban the Box Reaches Rental Applications in Detroit

“Ban the box” policies are laws and ordinances that prohibit some inquiries into criminal history, and they are not new.

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Congress to Consider Federal Ban the Box Law Blog Post

Congress to Consider Federal Ban the Box Law

The “ban the box” movement is nothing new, with nearly three dozen states enacting some form of prohibition against asking job applicants up front abo...

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Connecticut Passes the Amended Ban the Box Bill Blog Post

Connecticut Passes the Amended Ban the Box Bill

The modified “Ban the Box” bill states, “No employer shall inquire about a prospective employee’s prior arrests, criminal charges, or convictions on a...

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Tennessee Un-Bans the Box Blog Post

Tennessee Un-Bans the Box

The bill specifies that local governments also cannot require businesses to stop asking criminal background questions as a condition of doing business...

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Koch Industries Becomes Latest Corporation to Ban the Box Blog Post

Koch Industries Becomes Latest Corporation to Ban the Box

Koch Industries, one of the biggest private companies in the world, has officially banned the box. The Kansas-based corporation has reportedly removed...

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Compliance Guidelines for Minnesota’s Ban the Box Law Blog Post

Compliance Guidelines for Minnesota’s Ban the Box Law

The Minnesota Department of Human Rights is charged with enforcing the new law. The department recently published its Technical Guidance 364.021 in ad...

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Ban the Box? Some Municipalities Go the Other Way Blog Post

Ban the Box? Some Municipalities Go the Other Way

Providing a path back to employment for formerly incarcerated individuals is a common goal, but not every locale is on board with the sweeping "ban th...

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A Mid-Year Ban the Box Compliance Report: Ban the Box Blog Post

A Mid-Year Ban the Box Compliance Report: Ban the Box

2020 has been a hectic year for everyone, but especially for employers. First, businesses had to contend with the stay-at-home orders wrought by COVID...

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Colorado and New Mexico Ban the Box; Others Face Enforcement Issues Blog Post

Colorado and New Mexico Ban the Box; Others Face Enforcement Issues

A criminal record, regardless of the charges, is often a barrier to employment that ex-offenders find difficult to overcome. While more than half of U...

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One Study Suggests Ban the Box Rules May Have Unintended Consequences Blog Post

One Study Suggests Ban the Box Rules May Have Unintended Consequences

To date, nine states have taken steps to enact "ban the box" laws that prohibit public and private employers from asking individuals about their crimi...

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Indiana Governor Signs Executive Order to Ban the Box Blog Post

Indiana Governor Signs Executive Order to Ban the Box

Job searchers looking for work in Indiana’s public sector will no longer be expected to answer questions about their criminal history on job applicati...

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Tennessee Ban the Box Bill Is Nearly Law Blog Post

Tennessee Ban the Box Bill Is Nearly Law

From the looks of it, Tennessee will soon add its name to the list of states that bans the box for public employers. A bill to remove questions pertai...

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City of Portland Bans the Box and More Blog Post

City of Portland Bans the Box and More

The City of Portland, Oregon has passed an ordinance (No. 187459) to ban the box, and more, effective July 1, 2016. The City’s ordinance is more restr...

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Florida Eyeing Ban the Box Policy for State Job Applications Blog Post

Florida Eyeing Ban the Box Policy for State Job Applications

Florida could well be the next state to embrace ban the box legislation. State Representative Randolph Bracy is reportedly co-sponsoring a bill that w...

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Philadelphia Toughens Its Ban-the-Box Ordinance Blog Post

Philadelphia Toughens Its Ban-the-Box Ordinance

In July 2011, Philadelphia was one of the first cities to enact a ban-the-box ordinance. The ordinance, cited as the Fair Criminal Screening Standards...

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Does Seattle's Ban the Box Ordinance Go Too Far? Blog Post

Does Seattle's "Ban the Box" Ordinance Go Too Far?

As the Fair Chance employment movement continues to gather speed, Seattle is recognized as being one of the few cities nationwide to ban the box for b...

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Newark, Ohio Prepares to Ban the Box After Powerful Speeches from Ex-Offenders Blog Post

Newark, Ohio Prepares to Ban the Box After Powerful Speeches from Ex-Offenders

The news that the town of Newark, Ohio is considering "ban the box" legislation seems like small change when compared to the fact that New York City r...

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Indianapolis and Marion County Ban the Box Blog Post

Indianapolis and Marion County Ban the Box

Indianapolis (and Marion County) is following the lead of many other jurisdictions that have recently adopted ban-the-box laws. These laws refer to th...

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Another Look at Newark’s Ban the Box Ordinance Blog Post

Another Look at Newark’s Ban the Box Ordinance

A specific question was asked about whether the ordinance applied to independent insurance agents or insurance producers. That is, whether an employer...

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South Carolina Town Shuts Down Ban the Box Ordinance Blog Post

South Carolina Town Shuts Down Ban the Box Ordinance

One of the major trends in the background check industry over the past couple of years has been the spread of “ban the box” legislation, laws that hav...

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Ban the Box: Summer 2021 Update Blog Post

Ban the Box: Summer 2021 Update

We look at the latest updates in ban the box legislation, including a bill that could take ban the box nationwide, jurisdictions broadening ban the bo...

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How Long Does It Take for a Pending Charge to Show up on a Background Check? Blog Post

How Long Does It Take for a Pending Charge to Show up on a Background Check?

Most of the time, we think of criminal background checks as tools to find out about a person’s criminal convictions. Because arrest records without co...

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Connecticut Passes the Amended Ban the Box Bill Blog Post

Connecticut Passes the Amended Ban the Box Bill

The modified “Ban the Box” bill states, “No employer shall inquire about a prospective employee’s prior arrests, criminal charges, or convictions on a...

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Koch Industries Becomes Latest Corporation to Ban the Box Blog Post

Koch Industries Becomes Latest Corporation to Ban the Box

Koch Industries, one of the biggest private companies in the world, has officially banned the box. The Kansas-based corporation has reportedly removed...

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Ban the box Blog Post

Ban the box

What are ban-the-box laws, and what do they mean for your organization? Read on to learn more about this movement and to determine where ban-the-box l...

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Fair Chance Act and Ban the Box Legislation Whitepaper

Fair Chance Act and Ban the Box Legislation

Over the past decade, few trends in background checks have been more notable than the wave of ban the box legislation.

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Ban the Box: 2023 Update Blog Post

Ban the Box: 2023 Update

Banning the box legislation has been the top trend to watch in background checks and hiring for a decade and counting. Despite significant state and l...

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