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Employment discrimination against persons with criminal records in the United States has been illegal since enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. [citation needed] Employers retain the right to lawfully consider an applicant's or employee's criminal conviction(s) for employment purposes e.g., hiring, retention, promotion, benefits, and delegated duties.
Felony disenfranchisement was introduced in Florida in 1838 with the ratification of the first Constitution of Florida, which stated “laws shall be made by the General Assembly, to exclude from office, and from suffrage, those who shall have been or may thereafter be convicted of bribery, perjury, forgery, or other high crime, or misdemeanor”, [11] [12] which took effect in 1845 when ...
Employers might be unwilling to hire those with criminal records for many reasons – such as the risk of legal liability if a previous offender harms a customer or coworker, the risk of financial liability if the offender engages in theft, fears of personal violence, and the negative signals that a period of incarceration sends about their ...
A new year also means new laws in Florida. ... Over 32 million people visited one of Florida’s 175 parks during fiscal year 2021-2022. While three-quarters of these visitors — about 75% ...
Bills currently moving through the Florida legislature's 2024 session would make it easier to sue someone for accusations of racism, transphobia and more.
Under Florida law, trans people are sent to prisons based of their assigned gender at birth. In men’s prisons, trans women frequently have their heads forcibly shaved and - due to “anti-woke” restrictions implemented in 2023 - are forcibly taken off hormone therapy, and instead put through psychiatric conversion therapy. [159] [160]
Most felony disenfranchisement laws are connected with historical attempts to reduce the voting rights of Black people. Whereas after Civil War most states introduced new laws against voting by black people as a way to punish criminals, it was a clear manifestation of Jim Crow method of ensuring African Americans did not get to vote. To this ...
United States v. Lara, 541 U.S. 193 (2004) As an Indian tribe and the United States are separate sovereigns, both the United States and a Native American (Indian) tribe can prosecute an Indian for the same acts that constituted crimes in both jurisdictions without invoking double jeopardy if the actions of the accused violated Federal law ...