Maryland’s Prince George County Updates Fair Chance Law
Prince George County Council recently adopted the Employment Fairness Act for Returning Citizens (the Act), which amended and expanded its current “ban-the-box” law. The Act now prohibits employers with 10 or more full-time employees in the county from asking for or considering certain past criminal records of job applicants. Specifically, employers cannot consider convictions of a job applicant where the sentence was completed for the following: A nonviolent felony that occurred 5 years ago; or A misdemeanor that occurred 30 months ago. What is considered a nonviolent felony in Prince George County, Maryland? The definition of nonviolent felony, or “a felony conviction for a crime that is not a crime of violence as defined in Sec. 14-101 of the Criminal Law Article, Annotated Code of Maryland,” was further added to the Act. In addition to nonviolent felony, several other definitions were added to its Fair Criminal ...