Peter Sheehan of Oakland-based Social Justice has been working in the field of background check laws for over 3 decades. And he has done some amazing work. Earlier this year, he helped me with removing a sex offender registration requirement for a client of mine, who had been adjudicated in a juvenile court of sexual penetration with a minor (while he himself was a minor, sheesh). Now, Peter has come through in a big way for so many people of low income that depend on IHSS payments. Below is an excerpt from his email to me this morning.
[W]e have a preliminary in IHSS litigation (Ellis v. Wagner) enjoining DSS from continuing to carry out its policy of asking for or disqualifying IHSS providers or potential providers due to felony or serious misdemeanor until a final hearing on the merits in late January. From the brief argument I think the high probability of success swung the court on the preliminary so that is a good sign for January.
Way to go, Peter!
UPDATE: The San Francisco Chronicle published
an article about the case.
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