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• Lawsuit Claims Background Check Error Ruined Reputation

  March 30, 2015 - A Minnesota mother blames a background check mistake for ruining her reputation.   The trouble started for Lorie Wosmek after she’d spent years volunteering in the Remer School District. She lost that position when a background check confused her for a convicted felon.   Now, Wosmek hopes a lawsuit will clear her name. The feelings of isolation seem to only deepen for a woman fighting to get back what she once had.   “Two years ago, life was perfect,” Wosmek said.   Wosmek had spent the last few years volunteering in her two sons’ classrooms in Remer and coaching one of their football teams.   “They called me constantly to help out,&rdq...

• ICE Immigration Sweep Catches Dreamers with Criminal Records

  March 27, 2015 - Two linked but contradictory stories came out on Thursday, and both have to do with Dreamers.   Immigrations and Customs Enforcement a...

• Colorado Senate Approves Repeal Of New Gun Background Checks

  March 26, 2015 - Senate Republicans voted to undo new Colorado background checks for gun purchases between private sellers conducted online and in person, but their...

• Juvenile cases create complicated issues

  March 26, 2015 - The public story of youth crime in Texas is an incomplete one, in part because juvenile records are sealed by law.   Lorenzo Martinez,...

• Idaho Panel OKs State-funded Teacher Background Check Fee

  March 25, 2015 - A Senate panel has endorsed a plan for taxpayers to pick up a $150,000 tab in background checks for Idaho teachers and other school employees....

• Minnesota courts poised to put criminal records online

  March 24, 2015 - Joshua Esmay knew he faced long odds when he approached the podium at the Minnesota Supreme Court last week.   Esmay is an advocate fo...

• Students weigh in on criminal record questions on college applications

  March 24, 2015 - Using an online application, a student goes through pages of generic questions about his or her aptitude, general information and background histor...

• Make public criminal records public

  March 23, 2015 - Massachusetts police now have sweeping discretion to decide what criminal records they will – and will not – release to the public, acc...

• Online court records a positive step

  March 20, 2015 - Florida will be a trendsetter if it successfully implements plans to make state court records accessible online. This process began more than a dec...

• Job Hunting With a Criminal Record

  March 20, 2015 - There is no dispute that far too many Americans carry the burden of a criminal record — at least 70 million, by recent estimates — or t...

• Criminal database backlog won't end until 2018

  March 19, 2015 - The RCMP have acknowledged there's a large backlog of entries for its national criminal-record database, known as CPIC, and say the problem won...

• Court Records Going Public With Provisos

  March 19, 2015 - Florida's clerks of court are in the middle of making electronic state court records available to the public online.   But in the...

• Grant to help residents with criminal records gain job skills

  March 18, 2015 - The city will receive a grant of nearly $120,000 to create a program meant to help unemployed residents who have trouble getting jobs because of cr...

• Banks to check criminal records before hiring advisers

  March 17, 2015 - The FCA has ruled banks and building societies will no longer be allowed to hire investment advisers with minimal checks and just rely on their &ld...

• Kramer: Public records belong to the public

  March 17, 2015 - This week, Sunshine Week, March 15-21, newspapers judge government agencies on their compliance with public records laws. They will publish their f...

• Senators Try to Include Background Checks In Human Trafficking Bill

  March 16, 2015 - If the anti-human-trafficking legislation moving through the U.S. Senate eventually gets a vote, it will likely include provisions to beef up backg...

• Criminal background checks create dilemma for employers

  March 16, 2015 - Employers are struggling to deal with vague U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidelines on how they should conduct criminal background...

• Tougher criminal background checks on teachers

  March 13, 2015 -   U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey is calling on his colleagues to pass legislation that would require federal and state background checks for all sch...