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Residential care children getting criminal records for minor incidents, report finds
January 26, 2017 - The teenage girl hurled the phone against the wall and it smashed into pieces. She was furious that a worker in the residential house where she lived had disconnected it while she was in the middle of a conversation. So the residential home worker called the police, who charged her with criminal damage and discharging a missile. If the girl had grown up in a typical family household, her parents might have shouted at her or sent her to her room. But Jess* had to be removed from her childhood home after suffering torturous abuse at the hands of a sadistic stepfather. Many young people who cannot live with their parents are being slapped with criminal records for relatively minor outbursts like...
Background Check Best Practices
January 24, 2017 - These days every new employee brings a possible threat to your business, including theft, sexual harassment, physical violence, identity theft, fra...
Nevada’s gun background check law, already in limbo, faces new legal challenge
January 19, 2017 - Nevada’s new law expanding firearm background checks to private-party sales and transfers is facing another challenge: a lawsuit contending t...
Senate Confirmation Hearings to Begin Without All Background Checks
January 10, 2017 - As Senate Republicans embark on a flurry of confirmation hearings this week, several of Donald J. Trump’s appointees have yet to complete the...
Just one in five Americans obtains gun without background check, survey finds
January 04, 2017 - The share of Americans who obtained a gun without first undergoing a background check is dramatically lower than previous estimates, researchers at...
‘Significant’ decline in job background check discrepancy: Report
December 29, 2016 - There has been a four percentage point decline in the overall level of case discrepancies in information shared by candidates looking for employmen...
Use of Big Data for Background Checks Will Be Closely Watched for Potential Discrimination Issues
December 23, 2016 - In October of 2016, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) held a public meeting at agency headquarters in Washington, D.C. on how...
Cities' checks of Uber, Lyft drivers appear to be hit or miss
December 21, 2016 - Minneapolis and St. Paul have made it easy for people with criminal records or bad driving histories to work for ride-sharing companies. ...
LA city council approves ban on disclosing criminal records during early hiring process
December 15, 2016 - The Los Angeles City Council approved an ordinance that bans employers from asking about job applicants' criminal records during the early stag...
It’s officially the biggest year ever for background checks
December 07, 2016 - Federal background checks for gun sales in 2016 hit 24.7 million after another record-breaking month in November. The FBI processed...
Gun Background Checks Hit Record Number on Black Friday
December 05, 2016 - Gun background checks in the U.S. hit a record number on Black Friday, the FBI said. The bureau processed 185,713 background checks...
Suicide Experts Urge States to Tweak Background Check Laws to Account for Emergency Gun Transfers
November 29, 2016 - A new paper argues that current policies can leave family members and friends unclear about how to legally remove a firearm from an individual in c...
The Background Investigator's Speakers
November 28, 2016 - Announcing Great Speakers For Clearwater January 2017 THROWBACK SCREENING Bruce Berg Barry Nixon Steven Brownstein These 3 alon...
Study Finds Workers with Criminal Records No Worse than Non-Offenders
November 24, 2016 - Researchers at Northwestern University have released a study entitled ‘Criminal Background and Job Performance’ that found employees wi...
More than 1 in 4 employers do not conduct background checks of new employees
November 23, 2016 - According to a survey done by CareerBuilder, most employers (72 percent) background check every new employee before they are hired. However, more t...
Nevada narrowly OKs tighter gun background checks
November 22, 2016 - Voters have approved an initiative to tighten gun background checks in Nevada. The vote totals were: * Yes - 558,586...
How U.S. Gun Control Compares to the Rest of the World
November 15, 2016 - In June the Charleston killings renewed the sporadic debates over whether gun control might have prevented this terrible tragedy. Four months on, t...
Nearly Half of Americans Are Now Covered By Universal Gun Background Checks, But Giant Loopholes Rem
November 14, 2016 - Private transactions, exceedingly slow reviews, and laws that don’t recognize the threat from abusers all pose steep challenges to keeping fi...
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