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• USA Overrun By Criminals - EEOC Asks Employers For Help

  November 01, 2012 - Background checks are necessary to keep the workplace safe and to protect the good workers from the bad ones. But the checking is fraught with risks and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission cautioned businesses: Conduct criminal background checks at your own risk. If companies ask job applicants about their criminal histories they could face discrimination lawsuits. John Hendrickson, the regional attorney for the EEOC’s Chicago district said, “I would suggest to (businesses) that they think long and hard about why they think they need to do a criminal background check,” insinuating that if they felt it was not required, they’d be safer not doing it. Guidelines issued by the EEOC in April clearly sta...

• New York Court Burns Down

  November 01, 2012 - As investigators worked their way through the wreckage in downtown Castile, New York, village and town continued to re-establish themselves. To...

• New Orleans' Criminal Justice System Is 'Fragmented,' Outdated, Consultants Say

  November 01, 2012 - An independent study, commissioned by the city of New Orleans to scrutinize its embattled criminal justice system, found "highly fragmented&qu...

• Maor, NZ Court Computers Down

  November 01, 2012 - The NZ Ministry of Justice says it will be at least a month until public computers at the Maori Land Court are switched back on. The ministry h...

• Don't Cut Yourself - It's A crime

  November 01, 2012 - A 42-year-old Waukesha man is charged after he repeatedly stabbed himself with a box cutter after waking up inside the emergency room at "Wauk...

• Georgia Legislator Takes On Mugshots.com

  November 01, 2012 - At first, it was crazy celebrities whose mugshots began showing up online. Now, everyday people pop up on some very popular mugshot sites. It can b...

• Pennsylvania Death Records Get Easier To Obtain

  November 01, 2012 - The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that coroners cannot withhold information about the cause and manner of deaths until after the end of each yea...

• Michigan Court Awards $22 Million Dollar Diploma Mill Lawsuit

  November 01, 2012 - A federal Judge for the Eastern District Court of Michigan recently awarded plaintiffs in a civil class action lawsuit $22,783,500.00.  The pl...

• Logan County, Arkansas Court Online

  November 01, 2012 - Logan County residents are now only a couple of mouse clicks away from being able to read public court records on their computer or Internet-connec...

• Trusted Traveler Program Coming To Fort Lauderdale airport

  November 01, 2012 - A holiday gift for some frequent fliers: the Transportation Security Administration in mid-December plans to start its trusted-traveler program at...

• Nanny Searches, Already Intense, May Become More So

  November 01, 2012 - The battery of questions that can rain on nannies from prospective employers or agencies often resembles a psychological appraisal, far more probin...

• Fingerprinting Of Job Applicants Skyrockets

  November 01, 2012 - The only thing Curtin is guilty of is applying for jobs in fields such as education and health care, which require applicants to be fingerprinted a...

• After Trayvon Martin: Should Neighborhood Watch Groups Require Criminal Background Checks?

  November 01, 2012 - Now that the Florida neighborhood watch volunteer who killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in February has been charged with second-degree murder, som...

• 5 States Where ID Theft Is Booming

  November 01, 2012 - As people flock to states like Florida and Texas for a warmer climate, someone they would rather not see is following them. Of the top five sta...

• Hidden Camera Scandal Blamed on Lack of Employment Screening

  November 01, 2012 - After returning from their spring break vacations, students living in the dorms at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga were faced with a sca...

• California AB 1844 Prohibits Employers from Demanding Usernames and Passwords from Applicants and Em

  November 01, 2012 - In September 2012, California Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 1844 (AB 1844) to increase privacy protections for social media users in th...

• What Is A Government Background Check?

  November 01, 2012 - When American citizens choose to work for the federal government in positions that require access to classified information, they are required to u...

• Will Private DNA Services Replace State Crime Labs?

  November 01, 2012 - A new Cloud-based DNA service could possibly serve as an alternative to state-run crime labs for DNA processing.  The advantage of the tec...