page_title: Ban the Box
section_title: Fair Chance
hierarchical_section_title: Ban the Box / Fair Chance
caption_attribution_description: English: Testifying right now in front of a House Oversight subcommittee on my bipartisan #BanTheBox legislation: the Fair Chance Act. This bill has now passed out of its Senate committee 3 times. Looking forward to the day it gets signed into law.
context_page_description: Ban the Box is the name of an American campaign by advocates for ex-offenders, aimed at removing the check box that asks if applicants have a criminal record from hiring applications. Its purpose is to enable ex-offenders to display their qualifications in the hiring process before being asked about their criminal records. The premise of the campaign is that anything that makes it harder for ex-offenders to find a job makes it likelier that they will re-offend, which is bad for society.
context_section_description: The terms Ban the Box and Fair Chance Act are often used interchangeably. 
  In 2014, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed the Fair Chance Ordinance, authored by Supervisors Jane Kim and Malia Cohen. October 27, 2015, NYC enacted the Fair Chance Law. In 2016, Austin became the first city in the south to ban the box, led by Gregorio Casar.
  In March 2018, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed the Washington Fair Chance Act into law.  In August 2017, Seattle additionally adopted a "Fair Chance Housing Ordinance", which prohibits landlords from considering the criminal history of a renter except for some sex crimes.
caption: Senator Cory Booker testifying in front of a House Oversight subcommittee in support of a federal Fair Chance Act in 2019.
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