Many Dating Apps Ban People Convicted of Felonies. Does that Make Anyone Safer?

Keri Blakinger
Jenny Roberts

Abstract

[qoute] “You could have someone with an old drug conviction, and how is it keeping anyone safer to ban them?” said Jenny Roberts, a law professor at American University who studies collateral consequences. “But a current drug user in a nice neighborhood that police aren’t policing, they’re allowed on that website. It creates a false sense of security.”