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A 1967 Database Made Sure Your Record Never Stays Local. A 2003 Supreme Court Ruling Made Sure the Debt Is Never Paid Off. One Industry Opted Out of Both, for Itself.
Three separate decisions, seven decades apart, add up to the same result: reinvention stopped being available to almost everyone in America. A federal database ended distance as an escape. A Supreme Court doctrine ended "I served my time" as an argument. Silicon Valley built a private exception to both -- and Florida shows just how far a democracy can walk back a fix even when 65% of voters demand it.
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