I recently heard that Mayoral Candidate Raymond Dehn claimed to have led the
Ban-the-Box effort. That is a categorically false claim, a lie. I know this to
be a lie because I led that effort while at the Council on Crime and Justice
and multiple sources easily found on-line would corroborate that. I worked with
many people and organizations in the Twin Cities during the course of that
effort, as well as, nationally. Among the national backers; National Employment
Law Project, the Legal Action Center, National Criminal Defense Lawyers and the
Open Society Institute--I'm a Senior Justice Fellow with the latter, by the
way, having done by Fellowship out of the Justice Policy Institute in D.C.
2010-2012.
I never once ran across Raymond Dehn during the course of those efforts and
no one at any of the organizations named would aver that he had anything to do
with Ban-the-Box in Minneapolis or St. Paul. Mr. Dehn is a liar, it's that
simple.
Where are people like Elizabeth Glidden, Cam Gordon and the rest....come on
you guys, you know this is bullshit. Have you fallen so far that you cannot
muster up the spine to call this sort of thing out? I sat in both of your
offices when this was going on and you're going to sit there and say
nothing...again? You guys have become part of the problem.
Guy Gambill