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Home Office Squanders £229m In 'Incompetent' Outsourcing Of Criminal Record Checks Upgrade
November 12, 2018 - A £656m government scheme to upgrade the UK’s criminal records checks system has been branded a “masterclass in incompetence” in a damning Commons report. The Home Office project to modernise the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) has been marred by poor planning, delays and spiralling costs after it was outsourced to a private consultancy, said the Public Accounts Committee. The programme is more than four years late and costs are expect overshoot its budget by £229m, the report added. “Government has a crucial role to play in safeguarding children and vulnerable adults but the handling of this project has been a masterclass in incompetence,” said P...
Bermuda Criminal Records Office Moving To New Location
November 09, 2018 - As of Monday, October 29, the Criminal Records Office/Vetting Department will be located at the Dame Lois Browne-Evans Building. A p...
Canada Law Permitting Destruction Of LGBT Criminal Records Has Seen Low Uptake So Far
November 08, 2018 - Despite efforts to promote the program, only a handful of people have applied to have criminal records for homosexual acts expunged after Parliamen...
Kenya's Maraga launches guide book for criminal cases
November 05, 2018 - Chief Justice David Maraga has launched a quick-reference book for judges and magistrates presiding over criminal cases. The Crimina...
The US Is Fully-Compliant With Privacy Shield Requirements And There’s No More To Be Said… Apparentl
November 02, 2018 - by Stuart Lauchlan Hurrah! Good news!! Crisis averted!!! The US is now fully compliant with the requirements of the transatlantic Pr...
UK Government Challenges Ruling Finding Criminal Record Disclosure System Unlawful
November 01, 2018 - The government is challenging a court ruling which said forcing people to disclose minor criminal convictions to employers violates human rights la...
Publicly Available Information and PIPEDA
October 08, 2018 - In an effort to summarize the general principles that have emerged from court decisions and the Commissioner’s findings to date, the OPC issu...
Handwritten documents, Manila folders, carbon paper — welcome to Cook County criminal court
September 28, 2018 - Every workday, attorneys enter criminal courtrooms across Cook County, put away their smartphones and operate in a world that their grandparents wo...
Lap Dancing A Crime In Israel
September 18, 2018 - Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said on Sunday that law enforcement had received a statement from the state attorney’s office saying lap...
Guadalajara Is First To Relax Sex In Public LawS
September 17, 2018 - It’s now less risky to get frisky – in public – in Guadalajara. Mexico’s second-largest city has made it har...
Proposal to decriminalise traffic offences in Kenya to cut case backlog
September 11, 2018 - The high number of traffic cases is disrupting the criminal justice system yet there is little evidence to show that sentences are making roads saf...
U.S. Military in Germany Go to Local Courts for DUI Offenses
September 10, 2018 - Barbecues, village festivals and get-togethers where alcohol is served may be a huge part of summertime fun in Germany, but the consequences of dri...
Germany edges toward Chinese-style rating of citizens
September 07, 2018 - China is experimenting with a dystopian “social credit system” which grades every citizen based on their behavior. The head of an exper...
Germany - What we learned from this year’s crime statistics… and what we didn’t
September 05, 2018 - The national crime statistics published on Tuesday indicated a dramatic drop in crime levels. At the same time, the general public think that Germa...
A Lot of Hype About Nothing
September 04, 2018 - Legislation protecting innocent Ontarians from the release of unproven allegations and mental health records in police background checks will final...
Met police deny looser background checks put people in danger
September 02, 2018 - The Metropolitan police have rejected claims that the force put children and vulnerable adults in danger by reportedly relaxing its vetting system...
Commonwealth Puerto Rico Police Record Search misses Criminal DUI record and conviction.
August 28, 2018 - The Headline: Commonwealth Puerto Rico Police Record Search misses Criminal DUI record and conviction. The Solution: Wh...
Bahamas Police Resume Police Clearance Issuance
August 24, 2018 - Police have resumed criminal record vetting — but the process is now taking 15 days. The Bermuda Police Service shut the Crimi...
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