I Believe that I DESERVE!…. I Believe that I QUALIFY!…. People can change. People do change. I had a rough start, that’s true. I messed up. I have owned up. I have paid for my errors, and…….I have changed. Please see me…… Please hear me…….. The record shows who I… [Read More]
An Individualized Assessment (IA) Can Help
The EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) Enforcement Guidance states that an Individualized Assessment generally means that an employer informs the individual that he may be excluded because of past criminal conduct; provides an opportunity to the individual to demonstrate that the exclusion does not properly apply to him; and considers whether the individual’s… [Read More]
An Individualized Assessment (IA) Can Help
An Individualized Assessment (IA) can help! Individuals, Employers and Landlords It Can Help!! POEknows can Help! Individuals As many as 100 million U.S. adults have a criminal record of some sort! Are you the running into a brick wall, trying to secure employment or a residence? Do you qualify? Do… [Read More]
Resident Individualized Assessments & Adverse Action Notifications
In view of the April 4, 2016 HUD Guidelines to Providers of Housing, POE believes it is necessary to utilize additional versions of the Adverse Action Notifications that property owners and property managers are required to send, when the owners/managers intend to decline an application placed by a prospective resident…. [Read More]
Employment Adverse Action Notifications – Change in Conditions of Employment
Adverse Action Notifications on prospective resident applications are required to be provided by the property manager/owner when it intends to decline an applicant, AND when the property manager/owner intends to approve an applicant, with an increased security deposit and/or a guarantor. One would think it is a much simpler choice… [Read More]
Prospective Resident Individualized Assessment
Property Owners/Managers are in the business of leasing quality rental housing to quality prospective residents. All applications are processed with the goal of extending an offer to lease, to qualified applicants. Unfortunately, not all applications can be approved. HUD’s April 2016 Guidance to Housing Providers strongly states that no prospective… [Read More]
I DESERVE . . . I QUALIFY
ATTENTION EMPLOYERS: IF YOU INTEND TO DECLINE AN APPLICANT, DUE TO A CRIMINAL RECORD….CONSIDER THE INDIVIDUALIZED ASSESSMENT. CONDUCT IT IN-HOUSE OR ALLOW POEKNOWS TO CONDUCT THIS QUICK, IN-DEPTH, INEXPENSIVE IA I DESERVE! …………… I QUALIFY! People can change. People do change. I had a rough start, that’s true. I messed up. I… [Read More]
2nd Chance Program – Individualized Assessments
POE wants to thank Sarah Callander and Mary-Denise Davis of the Office of the Public Defender, for allowing us to attend the 5th Annual Back to the Neighborhood: How to Succeed with a Criminal Record, an event sponsored by the Office of Public Defender and the Justice Policy Institute. Attendees… [Read More]
Employers: Important Details on Background Screening
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, about 92 million Americans have a criminal history on file. In the event that employers come across an applicant with a criminal record, it is imperative that these employers are aware of their obligations under the Fair Credit Reporting Act and an ever… [Read More]
Credibility Interview
As Edward Snowden prepared to defend himself in a worldwide webinar, the Justice Department accused the private contractor that vetted him and thousands of other intelligence workers of bilking U.S. taxpayers out of tens of millions of dollars by conducting 665,000 fake background checks between 2008 and 2012, with a… [Read More]
Individualized Assessments – 2014-04-21b
New York Attorney General, Eric T. Schneiderman announced in April 2014 that his office has secured agreements with four of the nation’s largest consumer reporting agencies (CRA’s). The agreements prohibit the agencies from automatically disqualifying applicants with criminal convictions and require the agencies to defer hiring decisions to employers who… [Read More]