{"id":741,"date":"2021-01-06T00:17:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T00:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/?p=741"},"modified":"2021-01-07T19:27:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T19:27:12","slug":"huntsville-pd-program-mandates-landlords-to-deny-housing-based-on-criminal-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/2021\/01\/huntsville-pd-program-mandates-landlords-to-deny-housing-based-on-criminal-history","title":{"rendered":"[BREAKING] Huntsville PD program mandates landlords to deny housing based on criminal history"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below is a faithful reproduction (highlighting added) of an otherwise non-public<\/strong>* document<\/a> which the Huntsville Police Department provides to landlords who are members of their \u201cBlue Star Crime Free Multi-Housing Program\u201d.<\/p>\n

It includes a mandate<\/span> for landlords to reject applicants who have ever<\/em> committed a violent felony, or two non-violent felonies. The ACLU has previously argued<\/a> that mandates such as these, with no statute of limitations, violate the Fair Housing Act.<\/p>\n

Both the official website for the Program<\/a> and its inaugural press release<\/a> give no indication of this; almost all major program details are non-public; one must \u201cfill out [an] online interest form\u201d to \u201cget in touch [with] a program representative\u201d. Their intentional mischaracterization of the program: omitting such essential<\/em> facts in favor of declaring it \u201cA solution oriented program\u201d and talking up its \u201cvarious regulations and standards[, such as] solid-core or metal door[s], \u2026 secure ground-floor windows, proper lighting and maintenance of bushes and trees\u2026\u201d, is highly suggestive<\/em> that they know exactly<\/em> how legal what they\u2019re doing is, and would rather the details not be made public for that reason.<\/p>\n

I make this post because of HPD\u2019s sneakiness in this matter. Sunlight is the best disinfectant<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Huntsville Police Department
\nBlue Star
\nCrime Free Multi-Housing Program
\nCriminal History Disqualification Standards<\/span><\/div>\n

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These are the Huntsville Police Department\u2019s Crime Free Multi-Housing Program evaluation standards for criminal histories of prospective residents.\u00a0 Any of the following– revealed by a criminal history check– constitute mandatory grounds for rejection of a rental application<\/span> beginning with anyone applying on or after August 17, 2017.<\/div>\n

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Convictions for<\/h2>\n

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  1. Any<\/span> violent felony<\/li>\n
  2. Any non-violent felony, within the preceding five (5) years<\/li>\n
  3. A total of two (2) or more felonies during any period<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. A total of three (3) or more misdemeanors within the preceding five (5) years<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Other criminal histories\/issues<\/h2>\n

     <\/p>\n

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    1. Probation\/Parole for any felony within the past five (5) years<\/li>\n
    2. Currently on Probation\/Parole<\/li>\n
    3. Active Warrants<\/li>\n
    4. Sex offender\/predator registry requirement<\/li>\n
    5. Pending charges (on a case by case basis)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

      *I want to emphasize that this document is, to the best of my knowledge and belief, breaking<\/strong>: a quoted Google search for its introductory phrase at the time of publication yielded zero results<\/a>. It\u2019s no secret that HPD has this program; what is revealed here is the stringent and quite possibly illegal requirements which it places on landlords.<\/p>\n

      \n

      I have also e-mailed a copy of my original document to ACLU of Alabama<\/a>; I will update this segment of this post with links to any of their press releases or otherwise media attention this gets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Both the official website for the Program and its inaugural press release give no indication of these requirements \u2014 which the ACLU has argued violate the FHA \u2014 and which have entirely<\/em> evaded public knowledge until now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[53,50],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drafts","tag-breaking","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}