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As Fast As Court Redacts, Straightline International Offers Kane County Case Identifications
June 01, 2012 - Beginning May 21st, Straightline International will begin offering inexpensive look-ups for identifiers in cases found on Kane County, IL's Web Site that have had them redacted. "Redaction poses a serious effect on the bottom line of pre-employment screening businesses", adds Steven Brownstein, President of Straightline International. "Costs have soared in our industry the last several years", Brownstein continues,"Online searches were the one place we could control them. Now, with redaction, as in Kane County, we're back to manually searching court files to see if the identifiers oo the applicant match those found in the case file." "Of course, we'll survive, replies Brownstein...
BRB Public Record News
June 01, 2012 - New Law - Maryland Employers and Social Networks Maryland officially became the first state to pass legislation to prohibit employers from aski...
New Computer System In South Dakota
June 01, 2012 - The public eventually should have better access to court case information with a new computer system being installed throughout South Dakota, a cou...
Tax Court Lags On Access
June 01, 2012 - The U.S. Tax Court is a powerful but obscure institution that has been opening itself up to the public, but only very slowly, and it still lags beh...
"We Will No Longer Sell NYC Housing Court Records"
June 01, 2012 - Some good? news for those of you who pick fights with your landlords, or who are harassed by them for no good reason: New York courts are going to...
Failed Drug Tests Hinder Hiring At Ohio Businesses
June 01, 2012 - According to a new survey, almost half of Ohio manufacturing companies have rejected a candidate for an hourly position because of a failed drug te...
Dennis Brownstein's Extreme Court News Blog
June 01, 2012 - The Most Imperfect Crime: Criminal Films Video of Himself With Stolen Camera Crime doesn't pay is a cliche. "Crime doesn't pay whe...
Young County, TX To Go Online
May 01, 2012 - Young County commissioners voted unanimously to put many county records online during a regular meeting of commissioners court Monday. By a 4-1...
Screener Doesn't Want Case
May 01, 2012 - This is a true story. A pre-employment screeneing company admonished a Maricopa vendor for returning a criminal record from a municipal court w...
DEA Recording Americans' Movements On Highways
May 01, 2012 - The DEA wants to capture the license plates of all vehicles traveling along Interstate 15 in Utah, and store that data for two years at their facil...
Employee Theft Causes Major Heartache in Offices
May 01, 2012 - Employee misconduct or theft is not always a cut and dry issue, especially in many cases when the employee did not feel like they had done anything...
NYC No. 1 In E-Commerce Fraud
May 01, 2012 - The bulk of online fraud in the United States comes from New York City, followed by Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Omaha, San Francisco, Houston, W...
Biometrics to Catch Virtual Criminals?
May 01, 2012 - Security researchers presenting at an upcoming conference in Baltimore will discuss the rise of criminal activity in virtual worlds such as Second...
Dennis Brownstein's Extreme Court News
May 01, 2012 - Court Ain't No Reality Show A Rockford man is scheduled to be in Kane County court next month, to face charges that he recorded a Kane Coun...
LexisNexis; Nonprofit Audit Delivers Industry Leading Background Screening Insights, Trends And Best
May 01, 2012 - LexisNexis Risk Solutions released its 2012 Nonprofit Screening Review, The Power of Positive Information, a comprehensive analysis of volunteer an...
Study Says NFL Teams Would Be Crazy Not To Draft Players With Criminal Rap Sheets
May 01, 2012 - An economic professor from Hamilton College says NFL teams should stockpile criminals in the Draft, the AP reports. Fine, he doesn't say th...
Domino's Pizza Named In FCRA Lawsuit
May 01, 2012 - Justin D'Heilly was working as a Domino's Pizza delivery driver in St. Paul, Minn., in 2009 when he pulled over to take a call from his man...
Cops To 'Adopt' A Criminal
May 01, 2012 - In a bid to keep a close tab on those with criminal records, one criminal at a time, the police commissionerate has decided to embark on an 'ad...
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