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Expanded background checks on guns, though imperfect, make sense
May 15, 2015 - Guns may be good, but keeping them out of the wrong hands is even better. That's why the Oregon Legislature should bring three years of off-and-on bickering to a close and pass a bill designed to expand gun background checks. The issue is not freedom. It is not the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ensuring citizens the right to bear arms. Neither is it a state government bureaucracy bent on complicating already time-intensive checks initiated at over-the-counter sales sites. Instead the issue is society's regrettable need to keep guns out of the hands of more folks who, by their criminal or mental illness histories, carry with them the risk of bringing harm to others. Nobody really wa...
Recipients of Food Stamps, Unemployment may Face Drug Testing
May 14, 2015 - Two new bills introduced in the state Assembly would require drug testing for some individuals receiving public benefits like food stamps and unemp...
A solid cyberpreparedness plan
May 14, 2015 - Small businesses with large customers have emerged as a growing ID theft and data breach target as cybercriminals realize that many small business...
Uber Shuts Down In Kansas Because Of Stricter Background Checks
May 13, 2015 - Uber has cut off operations in Kansas after the state legislature overrode the Governor’s veto of a bill that would impose tighter background...
Senate OKs Sealing More Criminal Records
May 13, 2015 - The criminal records of some one-time offenders who stay out of further trouble would automatically be sealed and unsearchable by the general publi...
Nonprofits and emergency responders say background check costs are crippling
May 12, 2015 - Local emergency responders and nonprofit organizations say they support recent laws designed to prevent child abuse, but they’re finding the...
Flaws In State Background Checks Include Child Endangerment Cases
May 12, 2015 - 10 Investigates uncovered how Ohio's criminal background check system is letting criminals slip through the cracks - providing families and law...
Manchester to Uber: Drivers must have background checks
May 12, 2015 - The Board of Mayor and Aldermen has voted to give an ultimatum to the ride-hailing company Uber: arrange state background checks for your drivers w...
Lawmakers Call Ohio Background Check System 'A Scandal'
May 08, 2015 - 10 Investigates, joined by the Columbus Dispatch, uncovered holes and problems with Ohio Criminal Background Check system earlier this month. &...
Background Checks Vital
May 08, 2015 - School systems use Ohio's criminal background check system to ensure they are not hiring someone who may be a danger to children. Police office...
Baxter Announces LA Court Search Price Increase
May 06, 2015 - LA Court Search Increase Well, California giveth and California taketh away. No sooner did we shed the court search f...
New rules require all who work with children to have background check
May 05, 2015 - Anyone who works with children at youth skills programs in New Hampshire must undergo a criminal background check under new rules in effect this ye...
Massachusetts District Court Record Searches
May 05, 2015 - Massachusetts District Court Record Searches The Massachusetts District Court record keeping system is ok for keeping records. &...
UI faculty wary of new background-check policy
May 04, 2015 - A policy set to take effect this summer requiring background checks for all new University of Illinois employees has prompted pushback from UI facu...
Gun enthusiasts warily watch as Oregon background check bill nears final passage
May 04, 2015 - Karl Durkheimer is warily eyeing the new background check bill nearing final passage in the Oregon Legislature. Durkheimer, co-owner...
Fort Rucker to require background check and badge for visitors
May 01, 2015 - Beginning April 27, Fort Rucker will begin issuing visitor badges to people who do not have a Department of Defense-issued identification, a news r...
Coos Bay schools volunteer without background check prompts investigation
May 01, 2015 - After sexual assault allegations regarding a concessions stand worker at Marshfield baseball games turned out to be true, Coos Bay schools superint...
Private workers seeing student info need background checks
May 01, 2015 - A new bill introduced in the New Jersey Assembly says students need protection from employees securing the PARCC tests. The bill (A4...
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