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Expanded Background Checks, Registration, and Gun Deaths at a 35-year high in Brazil
May 21, 2015 - Over the last 15 years, Brazil has instituted more and more gun control, including gun registration and criminal and mental background checks for gun ownership. Today they have “restrictive” gun control, and one more thing—a 35-year high for gun deaths in the country. According to The University of Sydney, Brazil instituted expanded background checks in 2003. These include not only mental and criminal background checks, but checks into employment records as well. Brazilians who pass the background checks then get a gun owner’s license for which have to retest every three years. Brazilians with a gun owner’s license must then register every gun in a database. A 1999 law—rea...
10 Pc Candidates With Criminal Records in Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation Polls: Report
May 20, 2015 - A sizable 10 per cent candidates contesting the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) polls have criminal cases including murder, kidnapping reg...
Obama and Kate Brown discuss background check bill for gun sales
May 11, 2015 - Even presidents make small talk about the weather. When President Barack Obama stepped off Air Force One on Thursday and shook Gov....
Volunteers want State Government to fast-track changes to background checks
May 11, 2015 - Background checks in South Australia are valid for three years and must be manually updated or renewed. The Government is promising...
Fewer cab drivers face criminal counts
May 07, 2015 - The number of taxi drivers charged with criminal offences almost halved last year, but nearly 50 per cent of those facing allegations and convictio...
Foreign criminals data taken off police records
May 07, 2015 - Thousands of foreign criminals who have been convicted of offences outside England and Wales have had their DNA profiles and fingerprint details de...
Pakistan police to digitalize criminal records for centralized biometric database
May 06, 2015 - Pakistan’s Inspector General of Police (ICP) ordered the completion of the digitalization of criminal records at all police stations to ensur...
Nigerians with Criminal Records Likely to be Denied Visa
May 06, 2015 - Mogethi Monaisa, Consul-General, South African High Commission in Nigeria, on Monday said the commission sometimes denied issuance of its visas to...
New background-check requirement for high school referees
May 05, 2015 - In the coming months, nearly 8,000 high school referees will undergo criminal background checks to comply with a new statewide policy. ...
Straightline International -Your Puerto Rico Criminal Record Provider
May 03, 2015 - Use Straightline International in Puerto Rico for your background and pre-employment screening needs. Experiencing delays? Not with Straightlin...
Ganja Possession Cleared From Criminal Records In Jamaica
April 30, 2015 - Jamaican residents convicted of possessing or smoking small amounts of marijuana prior to October last year, will not have these convictions reflec...
Law Institute of Victoria says minor crimes should be wiped from records
April 29, 2015 - Less serious crimes should disappear from adults' criminal records a decade after they have been convicted, lawyers say. In all...
Forces rejecting recruits ‘due to parents’ criminal records
April 27, 2015 - The leader of Ukip in Northern Ireland has claimed that the army is rejecting some recruits based on their parents’ or grandparents’ cr...
Large number of court cases pending for more than 10 years
April 24, 2015 - Malta has one of the lowest number of judges per 100,000 inhabitants in the EU, and the Maltese courts are backed up to the hilt with pending cases...
Civil court can review Sarawak native court decisions, rules Court of Appeal
April 23, 2015 - A three-man bench chaired by Datuk Mohd Hishamudin Mohd Yunus, sitting with Datuk David Wong Dak Wah and Datuk Umi Kalthum Abdul Majid, unanimously...
TSA tightens rules for screening airport and airline workers
April 22, 2015 - The Transportation Security Administration is imposing more stringent regulations for screening airport and airline workers, four months after fede...
Bill would require criminal background checks for doctors who lived abroad
April 15, 2015 - Medical board opposes proposal, saying it would be costly and unfairly singles out physicians A bill that would require international criminal back...
We deny Nigerians with criminal records visas
April 14, 2015 - Lagos - Amb. Mogethi Monaisa, Consul-General, South African High Commission in Nigeria, on Monday said the commission sometimes denied issuance of...
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