Tom Meehan, a distinguished Pinellas County business owner, announced that he would be kicking-off his twenty-sixth year of entrepreneurship by challenging his fellow business owners during the approaching holiday season! Meehan expressed a desire to see other entrepreneurs pitch conventional beliefs out the window about individuals who have either previously been arrested or accused of committing a crime.
Tom Meehan specifically dared fellow business owners in and around Pinellas County, asking that they turn a blind eye to “gotcha” mugshot report websites during the holiday season. Meehan contends that the sites report arrest records for Pinellas County residents who long ago fulfilled their debt to society, with no regard for what an out of date record can do to the earning capacity of a person.
Tom Meehan spent the better part of two years educating himself regarding search engine optimization, “gotcha” sites to which people can report either old or erroneous reports of implied wrongdoing and the reality that the sites are designed for the single purpose of shaming a person. Meehan found that arrest records on the sites often went far beyond any and all statute of limitations, and often prevented people who had paid their dues to society from getting hired for a regular job. He found this reality unacceptable, because all companies falling under his entrepreneurial umbrella had long made a practice of giving people second chances.
Tom Meehan committed himself to finding a way to bring attention to the problem of arrest record sites, and their interference with the ability to earn a livelihood. Rather than taking on the sites directly, Meehan issued his personal challenge to fellow business owners during the 2013 holiday season. His only requirement was that they give good people a chance to make a fresh start before the dawning of 2014!
Meehan’s team has taken to calling the challenge “Tom Meehan’s Arresting Experiment for Christmas.” All involved want this call to action to put good people into jobs they deserve!
About Tom Meehan.
Tom Meehan is an entrepreneur from Clearwater, Florida, and is now celebrating his 25th year as a business owner. Businesses owned by Tom Meehan have been successfully improving the quality of operations for a variety of small business owners worldwide, as well as improving the quality of life for individuals for at least the same amount of time. His holdings offer a range of services.
