ADVOCACY FOR FORMER CONVICTS
March 3, 2006 | Read Time: 1 minute
As policymakers continue to debate how to better reintegrate former felons into society, some ex-convicts have taken matters into their own hands by forming a nonprofit advocacy group in East Palo Alto, Calif., reports the Los Angeles Times. All of Us or None has succeeded in enlisting the help of the San Mateo County public defender’s office, Stanford Community Law Clinic, and U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee to clear the records of local former inmates seeking jobs, as well as urging cities to remove from job-application forms the box that asks whether a person has ever been convicted of a crime.
