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December 23, 2015
TriMet ‘Bans the Box” in New Year
Limits questions
about criminal
convictions
TriMet’s Board of Directors has
unanimously approved to “Ban the
Box” on job applications in the New
Year.
The public transit agency will dis-
continue the practice of asking about
criminal convictions on all job ap-
plications, and only conduct a back-
ground check for select job positions,
including bus and LIFT operators,
after a conditional job offer has been
made.
“This change means more people
will have a better chance at getting
a job by removing a barrier for those
who have been in the criminal justice
TriMet will discontinue the practice of asking about criminal convictions on all job applica-
tions, and only conduct a background check for select job positions, including bus and LIFT
operators, after a conditional job offer has been made.
Mass Casualty Mystery
C ontinued from p age 3
her 3-year-old daughter sat in the
back seat of the careening car.
After reviewing video surveil-
lance footage, police said they
believe Holloway drove up on the
sidewalk deliberately.
They say she was homeless,
and out of money, sleeping in her
car in parking garages. She might
have been on her way to Texas to
meet with the father of her daugh-
ter after the pair had split up some
time ago, family members said.
After her arrest, Holloway
“described a stressful period to-
day where she was trying to rest
and sleep inside her vehicle with
her daughter but kept getting run
off by security of the properties
she stopped at,” a police report
states.
She parked at a casino a few
blocks away from the crash site,
told a parking attendant that she
had run down people and asked
system,” said TriMet General Manag-
er Neil McFarlane.
This board action was taken earlier
this month as part of a revised Crim-
inal Records policy which includes
expanding post-offer criminal back-
ground checks to applicants, employ-
ees and contractors who have access
to critical infrastructure or security
sensitive facilities or information.
TriMet will also conduct a Fair
Credit Reporting Act check if the per-
son is seeking a position where the
essential function requires access to
sensitive financial information. What
is not changing is that if an applicant
is convicted of a crime against per-
sons, public order, property or life,
or firearms and other weapons crimes
may disqualify the person from hire
forever or for a specific period of time
based on the crime, officials said.
the valet to call 911, Clark Coun-
ty Sheriff Joe Lombardo said. Her
daughter, who was in the backseat,
was not hurt.
The sheriff said Holloway was
stoic when police arrived, showed
no resistance and spoke coherent-
ly about what happened.
Authorities declined to com-
ment on a potential motive and
said they were struggling to piece
together Holloway’s background.
She had changed her name to
Paris Paradise Morton in Octo-
People jumped on the car and
banged on its windows, but Hol-
loway didn’t stop driving on the
sidewalk, Lombardo said. The car
was fully on the sidewalk twice,
including once when it traveled
for 200 feet, police said.
There was no evidence that
Holloway had consumed alcohol,
but a drug recognition expert at
the scene determined that she was
under the influence of some sort of
stimulant, Lombardo said.
Holloway was under suicide
They say she was homeless,
and out of money, sleeping in
her car in parking garages. She
might have been on her way to
Texas to meet with the father of
her daughter after the pair had
split up some time ago, family
members said.
ber, according to Oregon court
records.
Several years ago, Holloway
graduated from Rosemary Ander-
son High School in north Port-
land, an alternative high school
where she received an award for
overcoming adversity from the
nonprofit Portland Opportunities
Industrial Center.
The crash happened in front of
the Paris and Planet Hollywood
casino-hotels and across from
dancing water fountains of the
Bellagio hotel-casino. The Miss
Universe pageant was being held
at Planet Hollywood at the time of
the crash.
watch at jail, Deputy Clark Coun-
ty Public Defender Scott Coffee
said. A Clark County spokesman
said the woman’s daughter was
being cared for by child protective
services.
At least 35 people injured in
the crash were taken to hospitals,
including three people still in crit-
ical condition with head injuries,
officials said.
The crash killed Jessica
Valenzuela, 32, of Buckeye, Ariz.
Other victims included four ath-
letes from Pacific University in
Forest Grove who were in town
to compete in a wrestling tourna-
ment.