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Background checks increasingly common for jobs, housing, volunteering
September 22, 2015 - Field trips are a highlight for many elementary school students. Expeditions to museums, farms and the state capitol give the opportunity to learn outside the classroom. Parents often volunteer to chaperon, but before they can get on the bus, many school districts are requiring parents to pass background checks. Purchasing a firearm, getting hired for a job or applying for a lease increasingly require some sort of background screening. Background checks aren't new. Beloit Turner School District Superintendent Dennis McCarthy said the district has been doing screenings on employees since before he could remember, and he has been working at the school district for 12 years....
Dauphin County may ban asking about criminal backgrounds in some hiring
September 17, 2015 - Dauphin County could become the second county in the state to eliminate a question about prior criminal convictions on some county job applications...
Uber Missed Criminal Records of Drivers, Prosecutors Assert
September 16, 2015 - For more than a year, regulators in various cities have questioned whether Uber, the ride-hailing service, vets its drivers for criminal background...
State appellate court considers employer's duty to conduct criminal background checks
September 14, 2015 - In the last few years, there has been a significant spike in the number of lawsuits challenging employer use of criminal background checks, includi...
Background checks taking longer than expected in Tehama Co.
August 27, 2015 - In early July, the Tehama County Superior Courthouse computer system crashed. According to the courthouse, the computer syste...
Uber's Background Checks Failed To Catch A Murderer And Other Felons, Prosecutors Say
August 25, 2015 - Prosecutors from San Francisco and Los Angeles continue to say that ride-hailing service Uber misleads its riders on the rigor of its background ch...
Background-Check System in Ohio Seen as Failing
August 20, 2015 - More than 100 school employees and others arrested or convicted of crimes may have remained on the job because of a long-undetected failure in Ohio...
Durham explains hiring, background check procedures ahead of school year
August 14, 2015 - In five days, Durham School Services buses will start picking up Shelby County Schools students for the new school year. WREG asked...
Oregon's new background check gun law begins Sunday
August 13, 2015 - A change to Oregon's gun laws goes into effect Sunday, which will require universal background checks for all gun sales - even private ones....
New Delaware law streamlines background check requirements
August 12, 2015 - Gov. Jack Markell is signing legislation to consolidate regulations for background checks for people working with children in Delaware. ...
Cabbies with criminal records can continue driving, depending on the crime
August 10, 2015 - Former cab driver Mahad Abdinoor Abdi reportedly threatened to chop off the heads of police officers in June. That`s according to police repo...
4 Uber drivers cited at LAX have serious criminal records
August 06, 2015 - Aleast four men who were ticketed by Los Angeles International Airport Police while driving for Uber’s low-cost car service have criminal con...
FBI Short Of Cyber Experts Due To Low Pay And Rigorous Background Checks
August 05, 2015 - =The U.S. Department of Justice recently released a report showing that cyber-attacks on businesses and government agencies have grown for the past...
Cabbies with criminal records can continue driving, depending on the crime
August 03, 2015 - Former cab driver Mahad Abdinoor Abdi reportedly threatened to chop off the heads of police officers in June. That`s according to police repo...
Criminal Records Haunt Hiring Initiative
July 29, 2015 - Louie Henry lost a sales-management position at a medical-technology company after one day on the job, when a background check revealed his 2001 co...
Problems pervade gun background-check system
July 27, 2015 - The one system that gun-rights and gun-control advocates both agree on, the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, which is supposed to...
Uber Driver Removed From Platform After Failed Background Check
July 08, 2015 - The ABC7 I-Team is reporting exclusively on an Uber driver who was removed from the platform after his criminal record was exposed. Uber's back...
DA clinic to help people clean up criminal records
July 06, 2015 - Some residents can get a chance to remove single offenses from criminal records that are holding them back from jobs and other benefits. ...
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