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February 01, 2017 - The man accused of killing five people at a Florida airport lied about his criminal record on his application to be a security guard in Alaska, and was fired after only a few months on the job because of the state of his mental health. The new information is contained in the security guard application Esteban Santiago filed last summer for a license from the state of Alaska so he could work at Signal 88 Security in Anchorage. The state released the application to The Associated Press, which had appealed the state's initial refusal to release the document made through an open records request....
Starbucks Faces Class Action Lawsuit for Allegedly Inaccurate Background Check
January 31, 2017 - Starbucks Corp. is facing a class action lawsuit filed by a Colorado man who claims he was denied a job based on an allegedly inaccurate background...
University of Wisconsin students warn against using criminal records in admissions
January 30, 2017 - Members of UW-Madison’s student government on Friday criticized Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s call for officials to revisit their policy o...
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 liv...
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...
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