Article from Reason by Christian Britschgi.
On Tuesday, the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), a public interest law firm, filed suit on behalf of several small-time landlords who are concerned about the financial and personal safety risks of being unable to screen tenants for past wrongdoing.
The PLF’s complaint claims that the Seattle law violates landlords’ due process rights under the 14th Amendment by imposing an “unreasonable, overbroad, and unduly burdensome” regulation. The complaint also says the law runs afoul of the First Amendment by denying landlords access to publicly available records.
“The landlords we are representing are especially impacted by their inability to look at criminal history,” says Ethan Blevins, an attorney with the PLF. “They have a lot of interest at stake, both personally and professionally.”
Read the entire article at Reason.
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Seattle leaders have gone nuts to force this on landlords and for me it is down right criminal
Good. This is an insane law, putting at risk not only landlords but also tenants who live in multiple housing bldgs.Ehat are they thinking, these politicians??