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• FBI Crime Stats Are Not Its Best Work

  September 26, 2012 - The FBI's crime reporting program is considered the final word on crime trends in the United States, but the agency rarely audits police agencies providing the information and when it does its reviews are too cursory to identify deep flaws. In each of the past five years, FBI auditors have reviewed crime statistics at less than 1% of the roughly 17,000 departments that report data, a Journal Sentinel examination of FBI records has found. In all, they've audited as many as 652 police agencies during that time, or less than 4% of the total. And a survey of police departments in the 30 largest U.S. cities found that nearly two-thirds have not been audited in the past five years. Of those, six departments - including Okla...

• Indiana In The News Again

  September 01, 2012 - Indiana is stepping up efforts to catch people who are collecting unemployment illegally, resulting in 14 felony convictions so far this year....

• Colo. Government Trying To Find Jobs For Workers Who Failed Checks

  September 01, 2012 - The state of Colorado is scrambling to find permanent jobs for 19 employees who can't work for the Department of Public Safety as planned becau...

• Prior Convictions Missed By Three Criminal Background Checks

  September 01, 2012 - A Colorado school bus driver accused of sexual assault on a child had prior convictions that should have prevented him from getting a job. Robe...

• Indiana Shield Law Has Critics

  September 01, 2012 - Private companies that buy and sell court records used in background checks are threatening to challenge a state law that allows people with years-...

• Failed Background Check? State Pays Anyway

  September 01, 2012 - The state of Colorado, under Gov. John Hickenlooper, has made the "Corruption Chronicles" assembled by government watchdog Judicial Watch...

• New Bedford: We Didn't Have Right To Check Background

  September 01, 2012 - Local and state officials gave two different stories Thursday about whether the city could have done a criminal background check on a city worker w...

• Background Search Law Had Its Start Here

  September 01, 2012 - Park districts in Illinois now have the ability to check young employees' backgrounds for serious crimes under a new law that got its start in...

• DPS working through backlog of criminal background checks

  September 01, 2012 - As the new school year kicks off, thousands of new-hires haven't had their criminal background checks. The Department of Public Safety is w...

• Ask the D.A.: Can my criminal record be erased?

  September 01, 2012 - Q: I have a record from 2005 of simple assault and endangering the welfare of a child. This is hindering my job search as I am being told that the...

• It's Time to Review Your Criminal History Screening Practices

  September 01, 2012 - In April, the EEOC issued a new Enforcement Guidance document on the use of criminal history information in making hiring and other employment deci...

• Many Using Fake Degrees

  September 01, 2012 - With the employment market becoming increasingly competitive, many people are using bogus degrees, diplomas and certificates besides telling outrig...

• Hells Angels

  September 01, 2012 - The Hells Angels have filed suit over the government's bar on letting foreign members enter the United States, CNN reported Monday. The gro...

• Toyota Camry among the top 10 most stolen cars of 2011 in the US

  September 01, 2012 - National Insurance Crime Bureau has revealed a new list which reveals the names of most stolen cars in the year 2011. The list includes cars from T...

• Family Can't Move Into Their Home After Squatters File for Bankruptcy

  September 01, 2012 - Dayna Donovan and her family have been unable to occupy their home after two strangers squatting in her Littleton, Colo., home for eight months hav...

• FBI Crime Stats Are Not Its Best Work

  September 01, 2012 - The FBI's crime reporting program is considered the final word on crime trends in the United States, but the agency rarely audits police agenci...

• Misuse of Data Banks Could Put Ala. Police in Jail

  September 01, 2012 - Systems that law enforcement agencies use to run background checks on suspects are strictly for investigative purposes, and inappropriate use could...

• NJ Criminal records Now Online

  September 01, 2012 - In what's been a long time coming, a searchable database of criminal convictions in New Jersey Superior Court is now available on the state Jud...