Precious Daniels is not what you’d call a hardened criminal. In 2009, she was arrested for blocking a doorway during a peaceful protest against a health insurer in Michigan — charges that were later dropped.

But Daniels claims that single arrest was enough to prevent her from getting a job with the U.S. Census Bureau a few months later when the agency ran her name through a criminal records database.

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