Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23
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Re: Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23
#2Nearly half of black males and almost 40 percent of white males in the U.S. are arrested by age 23, which can hurt their ability to find work, go to school and participate fully in their communities.
An arrest by itself, without an accompanying conviction, cannot be used to deny employment.
1. http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/arrest_conviction.cfm#I
Re: Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23
#3Nearly half of black males and almost 40 percent of white males in the U.S. are arrested by age 23, which can hurt their ability to find work, go to school and participate fully in their communities. An arrest by itself, without an accompanying conviction, cannot be used to deny employment. 1. http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/arrest_conviction.cfm#I
Do arrest records show up in background checks by employers?
Re: Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23
#4Nearly half of black males and almost 40 percent of white males in the U.S. are arrested by age 23, which can hurt their ability to find work, go to school and participate fully in their communities. An arrest by itself, without an accompanying conviction, cannot be used to deny employment. 1. http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/arrest_conviction.cfm#I
Legally, no, but it's getting common for employers to Google-background-investigate potential hires, and arrest notices can come up in such searches, which employers may or may not put unofficial weight on. Though you might be better off in a big city. In smaller towns, this kind of administrative stuff ends up published: local papers, or even the sheriff's office directly, often put out an arrest blotter with the names/ages/circumstances of everyone arrested in the past day or week, and those end up indexed forever (I gather this kind of situation, where a non-public figure gets minor but potentially harmful facts about themselves prominently indexed Forever, was one of the things the EU's "right to be forgotten" business is worried about).
Re: Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23
#5Nearly half of black males and almost 40 percent of white males in the U.S. are arrested by age 23, which can hurt their ability to find work, go to school and participate fully in their communities. An arrest by itself, without an accompanying conviction, cannot be used to deny employment. 1. http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/arrest_conviction.cfm#I
Legally, no, but it's getting common for employers to Google-background-investigate potential hires, and arrest notices can come up in such searches, which employers may or may not put unofficial weight on. Though you might be better off in a big city. In smaller towns, this kind of administrative stuff ends up published: local papers, or even the sheriff's office directly, often put out an arrest blotter with the na…
Ya, stuff like that is why we need a right to be forgotten in the US. People tend to see an arrest and leap to conclusions.
I say this as a person who has never been arrested. :/
Re: Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23
#6Nearly half of black males and almost 40 percent of white males in the U.S. are arrested by age 23, which can hurt their ability to find work, go to school and participate fully in their communities. An arrest by itself, without an accompanying conviction, cannot be used to deny employment. 1. http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/arrest_conviction.cfm#I
Do arrest records show up in background checks by employers?
In Canada, at least, background checks can reveal attempted suicides and dropped charges, unfortunately: http://www.therecord.com/news-story/4538747-names-of-420-000...
Re: Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23
#7Nearly half of black males and almost 40 percent of white males in the U.S. are arrested by age 23, which can hurt their ability to find work, go to school and participate fully in their communities. An arrest by itself, without an accompanying conviction, cannot be used to deny employment. 1. http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/arrest_conviction.cfm#I
While not as important as having a job, etc, it could possibly affect overseas travel. Someone couldn't travel with us from the UK to our wedding in the US as we learnt that anyone who's been arrested for any reason can't travel under the visa waiver program (they can apply for a visa though but that takes time, money, and an interview). And as far as I understand it, US VWP treaties operate on similar principles in both directions.
Re: Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23
#8Clarification: over 40% of young men in the US have been arrested. (It is ambiguous whether "youths" refers to both sexes.)
(It is also possible to interpret the headline as saying that 40% of all youths worldwide have been in the US at some point, during which they were arrested, but I doubt many people were confused by that.)
Re: Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23
#9Nearly half of black males and almost 40 percent of white males in the U.S. are arrested by age 23, which can hurt their ability to find work, go to school and participate fully in their communities. An arrest by itself, without an accompanying conviction, cannot be used to deny employment. 1. http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/arrest_conviction.cfm#I
Do arrest records show up in background checks by employers?
I believe only convictions / guilty pleas in the US.
Re: Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23
#10Clarification: over 40% of young men in the US have been arrested. (It is ambiguous whether "youths" refers to both sexes.) (It is also possible to interpret the headline as saying that 40% of all youths worldwide have been in the US at some point, during which they were arrested, but I doubt many people were confused by that.)
From the article: "At age 18, arrest rates were 12 percent for white females and 11.8 percent and 11.9 percent for Hispanic and black females, respectively. By age 23, arrest rates were 20 percent for white females and 18 percent and 16 percent for Hispanic and black females, respectively."