Our Objective

Our mission is to promote the hiring of individuals with felony convictions or criminal backgrounds, educate employers on the benefits of hiring individuals with a criminal history, and to create and maintain strong relationships with referral sources. Our operating principles are:

• To balance public safety and promote the reintegration of people coming home from prison.
• To increase employment opportunities available to people who are struggling to successfully reintegrate and remain crime-free.
• To encourage employers to make individualized determinations about a person’s specific qualifications, including the relevance of a criminal record, rather than having flat bans against hiring people with criminal records.

Our key advocacy priorities include:

• Supporting, expanding and strengthening programs proven effective in promoting the employment of people with criminal records.
• Providing support and financial incentives to employers who hire qualified men and women with criminal records.
• Prohibiting employers from using information about arrests that did not lead to conviction.
• Eliminating laws that categorically ban qualified people with a criminal record from employment.
• Promoting anti-discrimination policies that require employers to make individualized determinations about a job applicant’s specific qualifications.
• Promoting sealing and expungement of arrests that did not lead to conviction or resulted in minor or no longer relevant convictions.