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The Case Against Hair Testing
May 26, 2015 - An effort to approve hair samples for drug testing in commercial truck drivers is drawing some criticism. The Drug Free Commercial Truck Driver Act of 2015 has bipartisan support, but critics say the science behind it is flawed. Hair testing is based on the premise that certain drugs leave chemical markers in the hair. When hair samples are analyzed, those markers provide a history of drug use. Unlike urinalysis, which shows drugs that have been ingested within the last few days at most, hair testing can provide months of evidence. It may not, however, reveal the most recent drug use. “Hair testing has a window of testing for the previous months or weeks. If you take one-and-a...
Lawmaker pushing to waive background check fees for volunteers
May 26, 2015 - The state's new background checks law that was part of the fallout of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal has caused so much angst that...
The Background Investigator Goes To Massachusetts
May 23, 2015 - Steven Brownstein travelled to Boston to straighten out the lack of a quality criminal record search in that state. &nb...
Crackdown on Back-door Criminal Record Checks
May 20, 2015 - Under section 56 of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA), it is now a criminal offence for any person or organisation to require an individual to sub...
A Criminal Record Does Not Necessarily Result in Unemployability
May 19, 2015 - Many Americans with criminal records cannot find employment even if the record is decades old, minor, has been dropped, not corrected or if the cou...
5 Things to Know About Background Checks and Expunged Records
May 15, 2015 - In recent years, dozens of states have made it easier for people to conceal their brushes with the criminal justice system, broadening the scope of...
CARCO partners with Accurate Biometrics to provide fingerprint solutions
May 14, 2015 - Risk mitigation and background screening firm CARCO Group, Inc. announced it has partnered with Accurate Biometrics, Inc. to provide live scan fing...
Chinese hackers targeting background check files
May 08, 2015 - Hackers for China and other U.S. adversaries are going after files that provide information on powerful people, including those contained in backgr...
Bruce Berg's Comments on NAPBS Conference
May 05, 2015 - The conference officially kicked off on Sunday night with an opening ceremony followed by the exhibit floor open to all for hors d’oeuvres an...
NFL Expands Background Checks for Draft
May 05, 2015 - The National Football League (NFL) conducted background checks on all top college players in advance of the 2015 NFL Draft taking place April 30th...
State background-check system flawed and unreliable
April 29, 2015 - From cops whose safety is at stake to day-care centers trying to avoid hiring ex-felons, Ohio’s flawed criminal background-check system doesn...
Koch Industries drops criminal-history question from job applications
April 27, 2015 - Koch Industries, one of the nation's largest private companies, has removed questions about prior criminal convictions from its job application...
The Case Against Hair Testing
April 24, 2015 - An effort to approve hair samples for drug testing in commercial truck drivers is drawing some criticism. The Drug Free Commercial Truck Driver Act...
Background checks in child placement needed, tribes say
April 20, 2015 - Washington tribes and the country’s largest group representing Native Americans are asking for state and federal help in getting background c...
Criminal background checks create dilemma for employers
April 16, 2015 - Employers are struggling to deal with vague U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidelines on how they should conduct criminal background...
Apple's refusal to hire felons to construct its headquarters points to a deeper problem
April 15, 2015 - Policies like Apple’s have sparked a national movement to take criminal records out of the hiring process. Apple has long been...
Could a Background Check Cost You a Job Offer?
April 14, 2015 - “The past is never dead. It’s not even past,” William Faulkner once wrote. Some job seekers learn that lesson the hard way, when...
Apple Bans Construction Workers with Criminal Records from Building New Campus
April 09, 2015 - Several construction workers hired to help build a new campus in Cupertino, California for tech giant Apple were let go from their jobs in January...
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