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Everything You Need to Know About Federal Background Checks - and the Gaps of Dylann Roof
July 28, 2015 - FBI Director James Comey made a startling admission Friday: Dylann Roof, the Charleston church shooter, was sold a gun — despite confessing to drug possession a month earlier — because of a breakdown in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS. But what Comey didn’t say is that Roof exploited a significant but rarely acknowledged loophole: If a background check takes the FBI longer than three days to complete, a gun dealer can sell the gun anyway. And because of a bureaucratic mix-up, that’s exactly what happened. “This case rips all of our hearts out,” Comey said at a closed-door gathering of reporters at FBI headquarters. Here, a step...
Release of archived criminal records allows you to check for a 'black sheep' in your family tree
June 30, 2015 - For many an amateur genealogist, the task of unravelling a family tree is made in the tantalising hope of uncovering a sliver of royalty or fame in...
Bill to ban criminal record question on job forms advances
June 17, 2015 - The Oregon Senate has approved a bill making it illegal for employers to ask about criminal records on job applications. The bill pa...
New York City Council passes bill prohibiting certain criminal background inquiries in hiring decisi
June 16, 2015 - On June 10, 2015, the New York City Council voted to amend the New York City Human Rights Law to prohibit employers from inquiring into the arrest...
Medicaid to subject providers to criminal background checks starting Aug. 1
June 12, 2015 - Starting Aug. 1, providers considered at “high risk” for defrauding state Medicaid programs will undergo a criminal background check th...
Pakistani Firm Is at Center of Vast Fake Degree Scam
June 08, 2015 - Seen from the Internet, it is a vast education empire: hundreds of universities and high schools, with elegant names and smiling professors...
McKinney City Council candidate’s criminal record from 1990s exposed by rival
June 08, 2015 - A candidate’s checkered past surfaced this week during early voting in the McKinney City Council runoff election. Businessman...
Best practices for employer background checks
June 03, 2015 - There are many clear benefits in performing background checks, such as screening out candidates who give incomplete or inaccurate information on th...
Toronto police background checks no longer include mental health incidents
June 01, 2015 - In a step forward for mental health rights, the Toronto Police Service will no longer release records of non-criminal mental health encounters with...
Steven Brownstein Announces Enhanced Background Checks
May 29, 2015 - Criminal records are only part of what comprises an enhanced background check. Details, such as lawsuits, bankruptcies,...
Survey Reveals Majority of Healthcare, Manufacturing, Retail And Education Contractors Go Unscree
May 28, 2015 - More than half of companies in healthcare, manufacturing, retail and education do not require a background check for their temporary employees and...
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...
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...
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