[BDSM-LegalIssues] New book -- good but disturbing
[the following is a very lightly edited version of an email that I
sent to an attorney friend of mine who specializes in privacy rights]
Hey there! How are things? Lunch sometime soon?
Say, o' privacy activist friend o' mine, my interest in search and
seizure law continues to grow and I therefore continue to educate
myself on this topic. Pursuant thereto, I have just finished reading
a book that I found both very interesting and very distrubing -- and
which made me think of you (and privacy) considerably more than once.
The book is called "Arrest-proof Yourself" and it's written by former
police officer and FBI Agent Dale Carson, who is now a criminal
defense lawyer in Florida.
The book is literally dripping with way way politically incorrect,
way way too true truth about the realities of who tends to get
arrested, and why, in this country at this time. I never once felt
that he hit a false note and everything he writes is entirely
consistent with my own education and experience. He concentrates on
very useful specifics regarding how to not get arrested in the first
place, and why this is so important. His advice and insight are
absolutely first-rate.
OK, all well and good (very good, actually) but why, you may be
thinking, does all this make me think of you and, more specifically,
the work you do?
It's as follows: Apparently, many companies have quietly instituted
a policy of either not hiring, or quietly firing, any employee who
has ever been *arrested* (note: *not* convicted, but merely arrested)
for any reason whatsoever.
I don't recall the rationale for this policy but I presume it's
likely something along the lines of "where there's smoke there must
be fire" thinking, along with thinking that people who have been
arrested (apparently something like one person in four of the entire
population) are more likely to be "problematic" employees than are
people who have never been arrested.
Apparently, companies can purchase access to the National Criminal
Information Center (NCIC) databases and can now "run" somebody as
part of routine pre-employment or ongoing screening, and if an
employee pops up as ever having been arrested, out they go (or in
they never get).
Bothers me, this does.
Thoughts?
Best,
Jay
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