NCLC, the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI), and advocate Stephen Raher submitted comments in response to the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Proposed Rule on junk fees. These comments address the Proposed Rule as it would apply to junk fees that affect justice-involved people. Unfortunately, these fees are very common, and they cause particular harm to consumers…
The Fair Chance in Employment Act was recently reported favorably out of the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development.
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NCLC urges the CFPB to finalize a rule that would establish supervisory authority over larger nonbank providers of (1) money-transfer services for incarcerated people and their loved ones and (2) prepaid cards for people being released from prison or jail, known as “debit release cards” or “release cards.”
Governor Maura Healey signed a bill establishing Massachusetts as the fifth state to make prison phone calls free statewide and the first state to include provisions for free calls from county jails.
A new report from the National Consumer Law Center explains that the screening process is riddled with errors and bias that disproportionately harms Black and Latino/Hispanic renters.
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Landlords in the United States almost always engage in some form of screening of rental applicants. This screening often involves reports or scores purchased from specialized tenant screening consumer reporting agencies (CRAs). The reports typically combine information about eviction filings, criminal records, and credit history. Often the reports include a score or recommendation based on these records, and in some cases, this score or recommendation is the only information conveyed to the landlord.
