State Leaders Talk #SecondChanceMonth: Fair Chance Licensing and Clean Slate
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Rebecca talks to state leaders from Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and California behind transformative wins on “clean slate” and fair chance licensing reforms in the states. Subscribe to Off-Kilter on iTunes.
As leaders at all levels of government work to “build back better” — and to address the nation’s legacy of racial injustice and persistent racial inequality — removing barriers to employment for workers with records is more urgently needed than ever amid the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and downturn, to ensure not only a full but an equitable recovery that does not leave tens of millions of system-impacted individuals and families behind. As Off-Kilter closes out our #SecondChanceMonth series for the month of April, we’re bringing you a conversation Rebecca had earlier this week with a group of state leaders who’ve been advancing transformative “clean slate” and fair chance licensing reforms in recent years.
This week’s guests:
- Michigan Lt. Governor Garlin Gilchrist II
- Sharon Dietrich, litigation director at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia
- Representative Jordan Harris, Minority Whip of the Pennsylvania Assembly
- Josh Hoe, policy analyst at Safe and Just Michigan
- Whitley Carpenter, criminal justice staff attorney at Forward Justice in North Carolina
- Jael Myrick, interim director of the Clean Slate practice at the East Bay Community Law Center in California