2-3-17 league of women voters opposes criminal background checks for uw campuses admissions process

The League of Women Voters has joined opponents of the use of criminal background checks as part of the admissions process at University of Wisconsin campuses.   University Chancellor Rebecca Blank said last week she would ask the university system’s Board of Regents to consider adding criminal background checks to the application after it became known that a student working to organize a branch of the white nationalist American Freedom on campus had been convicted of the arson of two predominant black churches. The league’s president, Andrea Kaminski said the organization’s opposition grows out its belief that an ex-offender’s civil rights should be fully restored.  Kaminski was a guest on AM 1170 WFDL’s Between the Lines program.