Civil Rights

If a prospective employer specifically asks about a candidate’s physical capacity to do a job and they say they can do all of the tasks required, and then notify us afterwards that they need accommodations for things they said they could do without them, are we:

a) by law required to provide them 

OR

A minefield, indeed.[1]

The first issue in this question is the premise: “If a prospective employer specifically asks about a candidate’s physical capacity to do a job and they say they can do all of the tasks required…”

We have two individuals in our community, within 500 feet on either side of the library, that have been identified as sex offenders on the NYS website. One comes to the library to take out materials. He is an adult and now living and working in the community, but still identified on the NYS website. He is listed at a higher level of offense.

When considering how to address concerns about registered sex offenders using the library, there are several factors that must be considered at once:

Factor 1: Civil rights