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Background check best practices: Balancing the law with business needs
May 08, 2018 - by Riia O'Donnell Businesses are struggling to balance the need to verify applicants' background and experience against a rising tide of legislation, litigation and public scrutiny. From ban-the-box laws to contested federal guidance, the limits on employers can be confusing. But with a vast majority of resumes estimated to include misinformation, employers understandably feel a need to conduct some level of background screening. After all, making a bad hire comes at the expense of time, morale and, especially in the case of negligent hiring claims, quite a bit of money. Federal requirements When screening applicants, employers must ensure compliance with...
Straightline International Announces Lowest Prices for Europe Criminal Record Searches
May 04, 2018 - Check out these prices for criminal record searches: Dublin $24.99 London $19.99 Munich $12.99 Paris $21.99 These pric...
New Zealand Erasing Records Of Some Homosexual Offenders
April 27, 2018 - People convicted of homosexual offences in New Zealand are to have their criminal records wiped after a unanimous vote to clear them in the country...
Brief - Picking A Face Out Of The Crowd
April 24, 2018 - Chinese police say they used facial recognition to identify, then arrest a man attending a crowded concert in Nanchang. The South Ch...
NW Ohio Courts Doing Their Job
April 20, 2018 - The Governor of Ohio, John Kasich, proposed a crackdown on courts that fail to timely report criminal convictions for inclusion in the FBI...
Everyone In the Cook County Criminal Court System Too Busy Pointing Fingers To Fix Its Antiquated Re
April 18, 2018 - from the carbon-paper?--seriously? dept When you write regularly about lawsuits, you learn very quickly that not all court systems a...
FCRA Class Action Lawsuits Will Continue to Target Employers Performing Background Checks
April 16, 2018 - by Thomas Ahern On May 16, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins that plaintiffs must prove “con...
D.C. Court: Accessing Public Information is Not a Computer Crime
April 15, 2018 - Good news for anyone who uses the Internet as a source of information: A district court in Washington, D.C. has ruled that using automated tools to...
Crime-Predicting Algorithms May Not Fare Much Better Than Untrained Humans
April 13, 2018 - The American criminal justice system couldn’t get much less fair. Across the country, some 1.5 million people are locked up in state and fede...
When modernization gets in the way
February 13, 2018 - I sent a researcher a request that I wanted help with. I thought it would be a good idea. ----Me: Hello, Steven Brownstein here....
Crim-checker IT System Update Fail Has Cost UK Taxpayer
February 06, 2018 - MPs have slammed the IT overhaul behind the UK government's Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), which is running three years late resu...
About NCIC
February 02, 2018 - About NCIC The Files: The NCIC database currently consists of 21 files. There are seven property files containing records of...
What Is Illinois 1410/710 Probation?
January 31, 2018 - The Illinois Cannabis Control Act and the Controlled Substances Act were enacted in 1971. They specify two special types of pr...
Clean Criminal Record Necessary To Work In Jordan, U
January 24, 2018 - by Nawal Sayed Migrant workers wishing to work in Jordan and the UAE must have clean criminal records from their country...
A Popular Algorithm Is No Better at Predicting Crimes Than Random People
January 18, 2018 - In February 2013, Eric Loomis was found driving a car that had been used in a shooting. He was arrested, and pleaded guilty to eluding an officer....
Kane County, IL Added DOB's To Search Results
December 28, 2017 - Kane County's newly launched Odyssey Case Management System is helping the county's entire judicial process — from the start o...
Straightline International # 1 Supplier of Puerto Rico Criminal Records
December 26, 2017 - When it comes to Puerto Rico criminal record searches no one .. that's right.. No one knows better than Straightline International. San Jua...
Data Breach Protection and Information Security Will Be Critical Issues
December 22, 2017 - Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On September 7, 2017, nationwide credit reporting agency Equifax announced that a mass...
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