FBI Drops Categorical Hiring Ban on Applicants with Sex Worker Encounters

FBI no longer treating applicants’ experience with sex workers as automatic bar against hiring

Bureau will still dismiss those engaged with sex workers within past 10 years, three or more times overall, or while in public safety capacity The FBI is dropping a categorical hiring ban on applicants who have had sexual encounters with sex workers and will instead consider in a more holistic manner at least some candidates who have engaged in the practice in the past, according to people familiar with the matter. The move away from an automatic disqualification falls along a continuum of ev...

By Associated Press