TREND. Sharing Economy. What's the fight over fingerprinting?

Atlanta airport is welcoming ride share companies. In the process, finger printing became an issue. Here are the arguments for and against:

Argument FOR:

  • Airport officials said it was a security measure

 

Arguments AGAINST:

  • fingerprint information is incomplete
  • fingerprint information is dsicriminatory
    • 50% of African American men are arrested by age 23
    • 44% of Latino men are arrested by age 23
    • law enforcement records are incomplete and inaccurate
  • law enforcement arrest records, before conviction, were never intended to be used as job qualifiers

 

What did Atlanta City Council decide? No fingerprinting

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