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Kane County, IL Adding DOB's To Search Results
February 14, 2017 - Kane County's newly launched Odyssey Case Management System is helping the county's entire judicial process — from the start of a criminal or civil case to its conclusion — run more efficiently and provide users with more information on cases. The data is being transferred from an older system that was based on finding information using a case number, Circuit Clerk Tom Hartwell said. The new system, Odyssey Case Management System from Texas-based Tyler Technologies, allows people to find information using names, he said. A side effect of providing a name based records system is the amount of personal information now available online, Hartwell said. A problem is common...
Hopkinsville Joins ‘Ban The Box’ Effort for Criminal Records on Applications
February 14, 2017 - The City of Hopkinsville is following Governor Matt Bevin's lead removing questions about criminal convictions from job applications. ...
Shelby Court To Get New Justice Information System
February 09, 2017 - Shelby County, Tenn., plans a major change to the computer system that tracks information about criminal cases. ...
Texas Court Clerks Wary Of Single, Statewide Access To Records
February 09, 2017 - Texas clerks of court are at odds with the state over its plan to implement a statewide online access system for court records, to be run by...
Colorado education department asks thousands of educators for new criminal background checks
February 08, 2017 - About 3,000 Colorado school district employees have been or will be told they must get new criminal background checks after a routine FBI audit fou...
Lawmakers eye background check expansion for teachers
February 06, 2017 - Indiana lawmakers are proposing a significant expansion of background checks on school employees during this year's legislative session. &n...
The Background Bar Is Rising
February 03, 2017 - One of the toughest things in HR is only getting tougher. Changing rules and growing risks mean employers must work harder to keep up with rising s...
Civil Rights Group Concerned Amazon Policy on Background Checks May Harm Minority Drivers
February 02, 2017 - The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice has sent a letter to Amazon that expresses “profound concern” over r...
Ohio Paying Nearly $11 Million to Replace Criminal Background Check System
February 01, 2017 - The office of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has awarded a $10.8 million contract using money allocated by lawmakers in the state capital budget...
OK Co. Court Clerk To Preserve First Official Criminal Records
January 27, 2017 - The Oklahoma County court clerk is working to preserve the county’s early indictment records from more than a hundred years ago. The effo...
Background Check Proposal To Prevent Sex Crimes In Schools
January 23, 2017 - As Indiana lawmakers consider measures to strengthen the state’s background check laws, the Indiana Department of Education is investigating...
Gun background checks in Fla. top one million for first time
January 20, 2017 - For the first time, the state's Department of Law Enforcement conducted more than one million background checks on people seeking to buy a gun....
Massachusetts Had Lowest Death By Gun Rate In The Country In 2015
January 18, 2017 - Massachusetts had the lowest gun death rate of any state in the country in 2015, the Violence Policy Center reported Tuesday, citing federal gun de...
New law would require background checks for masseuses
January 17, 2017 - Massage therapists may soon need to submit their fingerprints and get a criminal background check to get a license in Idaho. Massage...
Study finds one fifth of gun owners obtain firearms without background check
January 16, 2017 - Twenty-two percent of gun owners who reported obtaining their most recent gun in the last two years did so without a criminal history background ch...
Poll: Utahns support deporting undocumented immigrants with criminal records
January 13, 2017 - An overwhelming majority of Utahns want President-elect Donald Trump to keep his promise to deport undocumented immigrants who have criminal record...
Universal background check debate returns to statehouse
January 12, 2017 - Dozens of supporters of legislation that would require background checks on sales of all firearms in Vermont gathered in the Statehouse on Tuesday....
Uber, Lyft Ridesharing Hits Chicago Taxi Business Hard
January 11, 2017 - The total number of licensed cabdrivers in Chicago is nearly 9,500 -- the lowest in a decade -- while the average value of a taxi medallion require...
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