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Why Landlords Conduct Background Checks Before Accepting Your Offer - Should You be Worried?
November 27, 2015 - Tenant screening is a process conducted by landlords and property managers to evaluate if prospective tenants can fulfill the terms of the lease, and if they can take care of the property in question. The process typically involves collecting personal identifying information, including employment, credit records, previous realty standing, and criminal history. While this may be considered as standard operating procedures, should renters be worried about putting their private information at risk? Atty. Janet Portman, author of "Every Tenant's Legal Guide" gives advice on background-check policies, as reported by Trulia. According to Portman, there is a new process involving background rep...
Young immigrants are at risk from sponsors with criminal records, senators say
November 24, 2015 - Federal officials placed immigrant youths with convicted criminals, including sex traffickers and human smugglers, then refused to remove them even...
What Is PSP?
November 23, 2015 - PSP provides the carrier and background screening industries with instant, secure commercial driver safety records that truck and bus companies can...
Reminder for NYC employers: ban on criminal background checks takes effect today
November 17, 2015 - Less than two months after the effective date of a new law barring employers’ use of credit checks, another new law restricting the pre-emplo...
Study Finds States With Background Checks Have Fewer Mass Shootings
November 16, 2015 - States that require background checks for all handgun sales have significantly fewer mass shootings than states without them, according to a new an...
Jump in FBI Gun Background Checks Indicates Rising Gun Sales
November 12, 2015 - Statistics for NICS firearm background checks reported by the FBI on its website indicate that the system initiated 1,795,102 such checks in Septem...
Uber: Drivers who failed its background check have had Austin-issued licenses
November 05, 2015 - Fifty-three drivers who failed background checks to become Uber drivers have been issued chauffeur’s licenses by the City of Austin, accordin...
Criminal background checks often inaccurate: Ohio
November 03, 2015 - Guest columnist Shantell George is a member of the Libertarian Party of Ohio. She is a lifelong resident of Northeast Ohio. She is married with thr...
Getting a Job with a Criminal Record
October 30, 2015 - Dozens of people in Peoria will get a chance at a better future. The community resource center, MeTec, hosted an expungement and sea...
Just How Many People Get Guns Without a Background Check?
October 29, 2015 - Fast-Tracked Research Is Set to Provide an Answer: Even with an estimated 300 million firearms in civilian hands, research on guns a...
Statewide, police applicants failing background checks
October 27, 2015 - For Oregon's police agencies and correctional facilities, finding new officers is becoming increasingly difficult. Scores of applicants are fai...
US police chiefs call for universal gun background checks
October 26, 2015 - The nation's police chiefs are calling for universal background checks for anyone trying to purchase a firearm, saying opinion polls consistent...
Checkr Is Raising $30M+ For Its Background Checking API, Y Combinator Investing
October 23, 2015 - As on-demand businesses like Uber and Instacart grow quickly, so too do the B2B startups that service their wider ecosystem. In the latest developm...
Top California official pushes ammo background checks
October 22, 2015 - Gun control advocates are launching a new regulatory push in California to impose first-in-the-nation instant background checks for ammunition sale...
Exclude criminal records from job applications, companies urged
October 21, 2015 - A little box can be a daunting thing. For many of the 10 million people with a criminal conviction, job application forms are cause for despair....
Austin City Council calls for fingerprint checks, fees for Uber, Lyft
October 19, 2015 - The Austin City Council, after a two-hour discussion about the efficacy of various types of background checks, overwhelmingly passed a resolution T...
FBI No Longer Checks Its Records for 'Nonserious' Crimes
October 16, 2015 - The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it has stopped vetting arrest records it receives from states to determine whether they are serious enough...
Oregon expunging pot records in light of legalization
October 14, 2015 - As of July 1, marijuana has been legal for recreational use in the state of Oregon. As reported by The New York Times Monday, it was not the first...
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