{"id":78048,"date":"2026-08-29T10:55:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T15:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/29\/fbi-no-longer-treating-applicants-experience-with-sex-workers-as-automatic-bar-against-hiring\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T10:55:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T15:55:30","slug":"fbi-no-longer-treating-applicants-experience-with-sex-workers-as-automatic-bar-against-hiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/29\/fbi-no-longer-treating-applicants-experience-with-sex-workers-as-automatic-bar-against-hiring\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI no longer treating applicants\u2019 experience with sex workers as automatic bar against hiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bureau will still dismiss those engaged with sex workers within past 10 years, three or more times overall, or while in public safety capacity<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/fbi\">FBI<\/a> is dropping a categorical hiring ban on applicants who have had sexual encounters with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/sex-work\">sex workers<\/a> and will instead consider in a more holistic manner at least some candidates who have engaged in the practice in the past, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The move away from an automatic disqualification falls along a continuum of evolving recruitment standards within federal law enforcement and at the buttoned-up bureau, which several years ago relaxed its approach to candidates\u2019 past marijuana use and has drawn more recent concern among some current and former agents about a perceived loosening of recruitment requirements as it seeks to replenish its ranks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/29\/fbi-apllicants-sex-workers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bureau will still dismiss those engaged with sex workers within past 10 years, three or more times overall, or while in public safety capacity The FBI is dropping a categorical hiring ban on applicants who have had sexual encounters with sex workers and will instead consider in a more holistic manner at least some candidates &#8230; <a title=\"FBI no longer treating applicants\u2019 experience with sex workers as automatic bar against hiring\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/29\/fbi-no-longer-treating-applicants-experience-with-sex-workers-as-automatic-bar-against-hiring\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about FBI no longer treating applicants\u2019 experience with sex workers as automatic bar against hiring\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}