Ester Holzendorf's Blog – January 2012 Archive (3)

If you or someone you know can assist us by reviewing some cases to see if there is any thing available to the individuals who are incarcerated I would be most grateful. The back ground work has been done. There are facts that were not entered into the court proceedings. We have spoken with the Prosecutors office and the State Attorney General. They are not interested. If there is anyone that can assist us please let me know. We are volunteers but we are not…

Pepsi Beverages Co. has agreed to pay $3.1 million to settle federal charges of race discrimination for using criminal background checks to screen out job applicants-even if they weren't convicted of a crime. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which is working to crackdown on hiring policies that can hurt blacks and Hispanics, said Wednesday that the company's policy of not hiring workers with arrest records disproportionately excluded more than 300 black applicants. The policy…

Great crowd, great message at last nights annual meeting of the Criminal Justice Task Force. George Lombardi, Director of the Missouri Department of Corrections brought words of encouragement and did a wonderful job of explaing what Corrections is and what it is not. Mr. Lombardi addressed the need for quality early childhood development. Several Legislators were there. Rep. Judy Morgan, Rep. Mike McGhee, were among those present.

The Criminal Justice Task Force meetings are 1st…