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• 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.   An open team coordinator position at Oshkosh Corporation looked like the perfect fit, given his skill set and six years of supervisory experience at his former company.   He applied for the position with Oshkosh and received a job offer. All that was left before he could start working was a routine background check, to be done by the company’s vendor, EBI. However, as Peter soon learned, when it comes to homeschool graduates, background screenings can end up being anything but routine—especially when the screening company doesn’t understand homeschooling....

• 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...

• Beware This Flawed Report

  February 23, 2019 - Yes, the companies represented in this artcle are very fine companies. The story is flawed by the presumption that these are the companies in t...

• Australia - Excluding candidates because of a criminal record may be unlawful

  February 23, 2019 - By Charles Power on January 18th, 2019 Discrimination on the basis of a candidate’s criminal record maybe unlawful unless it is based on...