$1000 Fine if you do a background check on a tenant

[Anthony Gayden]

New law in Oakland, California. 
https://sf.curbed.com/2020/1/23/21078782/oakland-background-check-renters-criminal-fair-chance

I am of course opposed for obvious reasons. Just as an example while running backgrounds recently a tenant applicant had multiple convictions for theft and fraud. Not only that but a credit check revealed he owed his previous landlord $3200.

I’m not a moron and I threw that application in the trash. 

Good luck to Oakland landlords.

[Jonathan Taylor Smith]

If they don't want people with any (or certain) criminal convictions to be hampered by that when it comes to renting a home (or otherwise) - then why not pass a law that the record becomes sealed and thereby doesn't show up on a rental background check? And what about sex offenders?

Or why not pass a criminal defense law that says the prosecution cannot spend more money than the defense (equal funding to both sides) - so that less people are compelled against their will to take a plea deal that includes a conviction just because they're scared to get a worse outcome if they go to trial with a public defender with 1/10th the budget to put on a defense.