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Uber, Lyft need to justify fighting fingerprinting
April 22, 2019 - Uber and Lyft are enjoying great success in the Bay State, but public perception of safety issues might radically change that reality. As the Herald’s Mary Markos reports, high-profile criminal activity by ride-share drivers has spurred a Massachusetts lawmaker into action, filing legislation that would require all transportation network companies to submit fingerprints to be checked in the state and national criminal history databases. People do worry about their safety in ride-hailing services. Just this week, a former Uber driver was accused of raping a passenger in his car and ordered held on $100,000 bail in Boston Municipal Court. Mayanja Daudah, 37, of Waltham is being charged with two counts of rape. &nbs...
Lawsuits Coming to Firms Touting AI for Background Cjecks
April 22, 2019 - Background checks are becoming big business, and two relatively new innovations are changing the employment landscape for anyone with a history of&...
EBI Flubs Background Check
April 22, 2019 - After two decades in the workforce, homeschool graduate Peter Crabtree was excited about the prospect of landing a more fulfilling job. ...
Checkr, Even with Lawsuits, Touts its AI
April 21, 2019 - The Checkr screening solution uses artificial intelligence or AI to classify background data to provide more relevant reports. The company has also...
AI Pre-Employment Assessments Can Help You Hire Better
April 19, 2019 - Better Headline: Can AI Pre-Employment Assessments Can Help You Hire Better? Will AI-powered pre-employment assessments replace...
Global Pre-Employment Screening Software Market Research Report
April 18, 2019 - Global Pre-Employment Screening Software Market Research Report Forecast from 2019 to 2024 According to this study, over the next fi...
HireRight Saves University From Hiring Wrong People
April 05, 2019 - The University of Illinois System withdrew 25 job offers following background checks last year, with seven job applicants having their offers revok...
Sterling Was Accused About Lying How Their Record Searches Are Performed
March 29, 2019 - A lawsuit suit says the company lied about using official court records, and had actually obtained the info from a bulk data collection service.ity...
Background Checks And AI Are Not Mixing Well Causing Lawsuits
March 28, 2019 - Background Checks And AI Are Not Mixing Well One night last November, Seth Tucker ordered dinner from one of his favorite fast-food...
Fairly New Company To Background Checks Has Suspected Data Flaws
March 28, 2019 - Is Walmart Blacklisting Doctors? October 08, 2018 By Pat Anson, PNN Editor Carolyn Eastin has been a nurse practitioner in Arizona for nearly a dec...
Many Large CRA's and Wholesalers Named in FCRA Lawsuits
March 27, 2019 - It's a pretty sad day for pre-employment screening when corporate decisions are made to allow errors in criminal record reports because it is l...
Did Sterling Use A Database for a County Record Search?
March 27, 2019 - Lawsuit claims Sterling used a database for a Cook County (Chicago) criminal record search in violation of FCRA Two federal lawsuits...
This Ontario Law Could Hurt Sterling and Triton
March 25, 2019 - This is an excerpt from a recently published Lexology article Restrictions on disclosing record checks An individual, person or organisatio...
Straightline International Was Sued For Clerk of Court's Error
March 22, 2019 - The Canadian company that allegedly did a background check on convicted girlfriend-beater and accused wife-murderer Ryan Jenkins for the show "...
Improved Mexico Record Checks
March 06, 2019 - Mexico Searches A superior service is offered by Straightline International for those hard to get Mexico searches. P...
Helena Police and LCCSO Introduce Online Offender Search
March 04, 2019 - The Lewis and Clark County Sheriff’s Office and the Helena Police Department are introducing a new tool to track registered sexual and violen...
Maine’s highest court rules in favor of public access to state’s online court records
February 26, 2019 - Maine’s new electronic court filing system will be available to the public for a fee, the state’s top judge said. The Su...
Harvard Law Just Released 6.5 Million Court Decisions Online
February 26, 2019 - IIn a significant milestone for public access to the law, the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School on Monday published more than 40 million...
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