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FBI Can Keep Secret Who's In Its Biometrics 'Mega Database,' Says Justice Dept.
August 17, 2017 - The FBI has obtained a legal exemption from federal privacy laws, allowing the agency to keep secret whose data it has stored in its vast biometrics database. The FBI said it would retain the data to "aid in establishing patterns of activity" to help discover new criminals when they arise. A final rule published in the federal register by the Justice Dept. says that the Next Generation Identification (NGI) system will not be subject to several key protections and provisions covered under the Privacy Act, which allow for judicial redress and opting out of the database altogether. The database does add that the FBI "cannot claim exemption" to one p...
Under 13's Getting Plenty of Criminal Cautions
August 16, 2017 - 65 children aged under 13 in the West Midlands got a criminal record for the first time last year. This included 23 children caught...
Branded For Life - Sex Offender
August 15, 2017 - Branded For Life By Peter Korn Michael W. understands the journey Oregon State University baseball pitcher Luke Heiml...
Conviction For Urinating In Public
August 13, 2017 - A man who urinated on a woman at a Spiderbait gig last year has been convicted and hit with an $800 fine in court this week. As The...
Chun Lan Yang and Straightline International Open the Door to Chinese Market
July 10, 2017 - A recent hire - Chunlan Yang - by Straightline International (Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands) has opened the gateway for USA based pre-employment...
Pre-employment Screening Background Searches Sink to New Lows
July 09, 2017 - What is now known as a criminality search.. a combination of a media search, like Google, plus a global sanctions search has lowered the bar on wha...
New List of Lower Prices from Straightline International
June 04, 2017 - New Lower Prices from Straightline International. "We take criminal records seriously." China Shenzhen $21.99 Dongguan $2...
Nearly 200 with criminal records arrested in California in new immigration sweep
May 31, 2017 - Nearly 200 people have been arrested by federal agents in Southern California as part of a five-day operation targeting immigrants convicted of cri...
The Trump administration is arresting over 100 immigrants without criminal records a day
May 22, 2017 - The Trump administration doesn’t have much to brag about. So it’s worth paying attention when they do. On Wednesday, Imm...
Arrests of Undocumented Immigrants Without Criminal Records Spikes 150%: Report
May 19, 2017 - The Trump administration's rush to remove any and all undocumented immigrants has resulted in an almost 40 percent increase in immigration arre...
California's New Criminal Background Check Regulations to Go Into Effect July 1, 2017
May 16, 2017 - California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) recently enacted regulations that impose additional burdens on employers’...
NBC: Flynn never completed CIA background check for Trump White House job
May 12, 2017 - Flynn never completed CIA background check for Trump White House job Former national security adviser Michael Flynn never completed the r...
FBI: April Gun Background Checks Resurge, Nearly Break Record
May 04, 2017 - According to FBI figures, 2,045,564 background checks were conducted last month, which is only about 100,000 checks away from the record of 2,145,8...
ICE arrests 76 foreigners with criminal records
May 02, 2017 - Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 76 foreign nationals, all with criminal records, in Puerto Rico and Florida, including several in Miam...
EEOC Settles Lawsuit Over Record Keeping of Criminal Background Checks
April 28, 2017 - A nationwide provider of janitorial and facilities management services will adopt significant changes to its record-keeping practices related to th...
Straightline Lists Lower Prices Here
April 25, 2017 - Take a peek at these low prices for criminal record searches . We have been lowering our prices at Straightline International. ...
Ban The Box Will Never Work
April 24, 2017 - Life in prison is meant to be difficult. But it doesn’t always get better once you’re out. Re-entering offenders o...
Under Trump, ICE arrests double for migrants with no criminal records
April 24, 2017 - Immigration arrests rose 32.6 percent in the first weeks of the Trump administration, with newly empowered federal agents intensifying their pursui...
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