{"id":21055,"date":"2006-12-22T00:24:36","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T04:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/?p=21055"},"modified":"2017-10-04T16:22:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T20:22:30","slug":"ex-cons-to-get-special-rights-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2006\/12\/22\/ex-cons-to-get-special-rights-in-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Cons to Get Special Rights in DC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"body\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/2006\/12\/convict-quotas-coming-to-dc_17.html\">proposal<\/a> adopted by the District of Columbia City Council to give rehabilitated ex-cons a special protected status under the law in DC strangely seems to be staying under the radar of most of our nation&#8217;s talk hosts, bloggers and reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, some are beginning to take notice.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Blumer at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizzyblog.com\/2006\/12\/21\/some-prose-about-ex-cons-especially-marion-barry\/\">BizzyBlog<\/a> has dug out the legislation from the less-then-people-friendly D.C. Council website, and provides information that was not in my post.<\/p>\n<p>Kim Priestap, writing on Wizbang, <a href=\"http:\/\/wizbangblog.com\/2006\/12\/20\/exconvicts-to-become-a-protected-class-in-dc.php\">points out<\/a>: &#8220;&#8230;if Marion Barry&#8217;s bill passes, Sandy Burglar would become a member of a protected class, making it illegal to deny him a job in D.C. because he stole classified documents from the National Archives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And Courtney Mabeus, writing in the news section of the Examiner, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/a-464427%7EMendelson_troubled_by_ex_offender_bill.html\">notes<\/a> concerns by a public official that &#8220;someone who robbed a bank, you don\u2019t want working in a bank.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Precisely.<\/p>\n<p>I picked up on it after seeing a series of articles in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.com\">Legal Times<\/a> (paid subscription required), to which kudos are due.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proposal adopted by the District of Columbia City Council to give rehabilitated ex-cons a special protected status under the law in DC strangely seems to be staying under the radar of most of our nation&#8217;s talk hosts, bloggers and reporters. 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