Attorneys general across the country are fighting back against new Obama administration guidelines on businesses using criminal background checks for job applicants and two federal lawsuits that followed, calling both “a quintessential example of gross federal overreach.”

The nine attorneys general sent the letter Wednesday to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which in April 2012 voted in favor of the new guidelines that warn such checks can discriminate against African-Americans because they being are arrested at a disproportionate rate compared to the rest of the U.S. population.
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Fifteen months after issuing the guidelines which included the recommendation that businesses eliminate such policies -- the commission filed lawsuits against discount retailer Dollar General and a BMW facility in South Carolina for alleged civil rights violations.
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While the percentage of working-age Americans with a criminal record has increased significantly over the past 20 years, African Americans and Hispanics are arrested two to three times as much compared with the rest of the U.S. population, according to a commission report at the time of the vote.
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BMW believes that it has complied with the letter and spirit of the law and will defend itself against the EEOC’s allegations of race discrimination,” he told FoxNews.com.

Dollar General responded to the suit by reportedly saying it prohibits discriminatory hiring in its employment practices but its criminal background checks are "structured to foster a safe and healthy environment for its employees, its customers, and to protect its assets in a lawful, reasonable and nondiscriminatory manner."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/07/...und-checks-for/

Some of this crap is hard to believe! Do they never question WHY blacks and Hispanics are arrested at a higher rate?
It's stupid to think BMW & Dollar General would have to fight against hiring felons!

Let me see if I get this right --

Background checks are OK for gun control

Background checks for jobs are not OK