SB 731 would clean Sharon Logan’s record, automatically

Imagine being a law firm *forced* to hire five-time financial felon Sharon Logan to handle your office’s client trust account and payroll — despite her record of multiple financial felonies and thefts from employers.

That’s what will happen if Newsom signs Senate Bill 731.

It quietly passed the Assembly and Senate this summer, and it’s on his desk now.

California’s “ban the box” law (Government Code section 12952) already bars most employers (including law firms, accountants, and banks) from taking into account any expunged or sealed convictions in making hiring decisions. And, if SB 731 passes, almost all felonies (except for a few violent offenses) will automatically be sealed four years after the perp is done with her sentence. That’s true even if she’s been convicted of misdemeanors in the meantime (as Logan has since her last felony convictions in 2017).

It doesn’t matter how many convictions the person has; how extensive their pattern of theft was. It all will go away, automatically, in four years, as long as it’s been four years without another felony conviction. And even if you somehow find out about her criminal history, you’re legally prohibited from refusing to hire her because of it. She can sue you and win.

And if you live in metropolitan California, you may know already how hard it is lately to get prosecutors to even charge a felony.

https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/nation/california/2022/08/18/california-senate-bill-731-us-law-sealing-criminal-records-maria-elena-durazo-gavin-newsom-sign/7835552001/

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