St. Louis County Enacts “Ban The Box”

Background Checks, Criminal Background Checks, Discrimination, Employment Law & Verdicts, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Hiring, Legislature

Currently, more than 150 cities and counties nationwide as well as 32 states have passed ban-the-box legislation, delaying questions about the criminal records of job applicants until later in the hiring process. Of those states, eleven have required the removal of criminal history questions from job applications for private employers. On June 11, St. Louis…