AB 122

Current law, subject to certain exceptions, prohibits discrimination in

employment based on conviction record. Current law specifies, however, that it is not

employment discrimination because of conviction record to refuse to employ or to

terminate from employment an individual who has been convicted of a felony,

misdemeanor, or other offense, the circumstances of which substantially relate to the

circumstances of the particular job. This bill specifies that it is not employment

discrimination because of conviction record for an educational agency to refuse to

employ or to terminate from employment an individual who has been convicted of a

felony and who has not been pardoned for that felony, whether or not the

circumstances of the felony substantially relate to the circumstances of the

particular job.

Under the bill, an "educational agency" is defined as a school district, a

cooperative educational service agency, a county children with disabilities education

board, a state prison, a juvenile correctional facility, a secured residential care center

for children and youth, the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired,

the Wisconsin Educational Services Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, the

Mendota Mental Health Institute, the Winnebago Mental Health Institute, a state

center for the developmentally disabled, a private school, a charter school, an agency

under contract with a school board to provide a program for children at risk, or a

nonsectarian private school or agency under contract with the Milwaukee Public

Schools board to provide educational programs for children enrolled in the school

district.