A Florida mom is suing a company that vets guests for Airbnb after she says she was banned from the short-term rental platform over a pair of past felony convictions that have since been expunged.

The mistake, which the lawsuit argues never should have happened, left the woman unable to take her daughter to a series of potentially lucrative rodeo competitions, and prevented the girl — whose winnings provide the family’s main source of income — from qualifying for the barrel racing national championships.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    6 hours ago

    How are these public?

    They’re copies of old records that are owned by private companies

    Like, that’s the entire point of the article and the lawsuit…

    • BrikoXM
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      6 hours ago

      Public record can’t be owned by a private company and if they maintain a copy, they are responsible with keeping information up-to-date and if the record is expunged they are by law required to destroy it.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        6 hours ago

        You can have an argument with me about it, or you could read the article…

        Personally, I think the chances of you believing the article is a lot higher than you believing me rewording the article.

        Like, even just explaining the difference between “can” and “legally can” would help you out here. But there’s just a lot of steps likely involved with getting you caught up.

        Just read the article