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• E-Verify Misses Half of Illegal Workers

  March 01, 2013 - The system Congress and the Obama administration want employers to use to help curb illegal immigration is failing to catch more than half of the unauthorized workers it checks, a research company has found. The online tool E-Verify, now used voluntarily by employers, wrongly clears illegal workers about 54 percent of the time, according to Westat, a research company that evaluated the system for the Homeland Security Department. E-Verify missed so many illegal workers mainly because it can't detect identity fraud, Westat said. "Clearly it means it's not doing its No. 1 job well enough," said Marc Rosenblum, a researcher at the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan Washington think tank. E-Verify allows...

• Massachusetts Announces Public Access Program

  March 01, 2013 - The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Probate and Family Court announced that publicly available Estate and Administration cases are now accessible via...

• Calif Judge Reviewing Convictions Under Three Strikes

  March 01, 2013 - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has started the process of reviewing cases of California inmates who are serving time under the three-strikes la...

• Vinton County, OH Now Online

  March 01, 2013 - Vinton County Clerk of Courts Lisa Gilliland announced that the records of the Vinton County Common Pleas Court are now available online. Accor...

• Kentucky Courts Need To Update Their Records System

  March 01, 2013 - Kentucky Supreme Court Chief Justice John Minton is warning lawmakers that failure to update the state court system’s electronic filing syste...

• Debt Kills Love Like A Criminal Record

  February 03, 2013 - A recent survey by CreditCards.com found that women would sever a relationship with a lover who couldn't pay routine bills as quickly as she...

• Lake County, IN Online

  January 15, 2013 - What used to be one of the most populous, yet difficult, counties in the USA to find a researcher, Lake County, Indiana is online. Lake County...

• 5 Stories Of Background Checks Gone Awry

  January 08, 2013 - By Erin Steiner Background checks are one of those things that have become so ubiquitous in our culture that we very rarely even think about th...

• Pennsylvania Unyielding In Forgiving Past Crimes

  January 01, 2013 - In five years, Melissa T. Benvegno of Allentown sees herself as a juvenile probation officer or even a federal border patrol agent. Not long ag...

• California Scores #1 Judicial Hellhole Title

  January 01, 2013 - Despite “occasional glimmers of hope,” the American Tort Reform Association has nonetheless placed West Virginia high on its list of an...

• Mistaken Murder Arrest Still On Man's Record 37 years Later

  January 01, 2013 - James White had forgotten about that night. It had been almost four decades after all. The night in 1975 when Commerce City Police pulled him over...

• Free Driver License Status Checks

  January 01, 2013 - Motor vehicle records (driving records, title, registration, accident reports, etc.) are not public when the records contain personal information....

• Los Angeles Divorce Documents Now Downloadable

  January 01, 2013 - The Los Angeles Superior court is now providing imaged Divorce Judgments online. The site offers the option of electronic certification of the...

• FTC to Study Data Broker Industry's Collection and Use of Consumer Data

  December 30, 2012 - The Federal Trade Commission issued orders requiring nine data brokerage companies to provide the agency with information about how they collect...

• HireRight Sued Again

  December 27, 2012 - A man is suing Energy Future Holdings Corporation after he claims it performed an inaccurate background check and caused a job offer to be rescinde...

• Canada Asked To Concur With Straightline For International Criminal Checks

  December 19, 2012 - Based on the news out of Neepawa earlier this week, it may be time for the federal government to consider making criminal record checks mandatory f...

• Riverside, Calif. Cites Rule As Excuse To Hike Rate, Increase Revenue

  December 15, 2012 - Beginning Jan. 1, less information will be available to members of the public seeking updates on criminal cases via the Riverside County Superior C...

• He Was Gay in The 1950's And Now Can't Get A Job

  December 11, 2012 - A 73-year-old man who has a criminal record for being in a gay relationship in the 1950s has applied to have his conviction struck out. John Cr...