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How A Criminal Background Check Can Cost You The Job
September 05, 2014 - Kevin Jones thought he had landed a good job with the big property manager Halstead Management, as a doorman at a Manhattan building. But like 69% of American employers, Halstead ran a criminal background check on Jones before making its final offer. It relied on Sterling Infosystems, one of the nation’s largest background check firms. Sterling turned up evidence that Jones had been convicted of drunk driving, driving without a license, petty larceny, and criminal possession of stolen property. But there was a problem. The Kevin Jones with the criminal past was a white man with the middle initial “M.” The would-be doorman, an African-American, was named Kevin A. Jones. Halstead didn’t give Jo...
Health Care Report Reveals Slower Job Growth and Employers Common Screening Program Gaps
July 18, 2014 - Health care hiring is expected to increase this year, but at a slower pace than last year, according to HireRight’s Health Care Spotlight, a...
New Alabama law To Wipe Out Criminal Records Goes Into Effect
July 14, 2014 - Alabama residents who have been arrested, but not convicted of a crime, can soon file to have their arrest record wiped away under a new law...
Nevada Repository Missing Thousands Of Criminal Records
July 08, 2014 - A study has found more than 800,000 criminal cases, some going back 20 years, that were not forwarded by Nevada law enforcement agencies and...
Unblinking Eyes Track Employees
July 01, 2014 - A digital Big Brother is coming to work, for better or worse. Advanced technological tools are beginning to make it possible to measure and monitor...
Background check firm that vetted Snowden faces fraud, bonus pay investigation
June 30, 2014 - The background check company that vetted Edward Snowden and faces fraud accusations from the Justice Department has refused a congressional request...
No Background Checks Needed For Home Health Workers In 10 States
June 27, 2014 - As the population ages, “home health-care worker” has become one of the fastest-growing occupations in the U.S. Some 3.5 million Americ...
General Information Services Announces Settlement of King v. GIS and Dowell v. GIS
June 26, 2014 - Soon, the parties in King v. General Information Services and Dowell v. General Information Services will file settlement documents asking the cour...
Craig's Verification Tips
April 22, 2014 - Peer References Require Special Tactics The Joint Commission defines a peer as someone from the same discipline with essentially equal qualific...
Banning the Box: What’s the effect on CRAs? By Derek Hinton
April 21, 2014 - Many of the employment applications used by employers have a section where the applicant is asked about criminal activity. There is an increasing t...
Les Rosen's Corner
April 18, 2014 - Data Brokers Settle FTC Charges of FCRA Violations Two data brokers that sell public record information about consumers have agreed to se...
Civil Judgments Vs. Judgment Liens: What's The Difference?
April 17, 2014 - If you’re like me when I was first introduced to this industry, you might be a little confused about the difference between judgments and jud...
Data Brokers Disciplined For Inaccurate Background Checks, Lack Of Privacy Measures
April 14, 2014 - It's tough enough landing a job these days. So imagine if that background check provided to your potential employer wrongly identified you...
Straightline Gets Acknowleged As Leader In Puerto Rico Background Searches
April 10, 2014 - Straightline International has been acknowledged as the leader in Puerto Rico public and criminal record retrieval according to an exclu...
Sacramento County, CA Revamps Public Records WebSite
April 08, 2014 - Sacramento judges introduced the first case search system in California built without outside consultants, saying it was constructed without extra...
Check Out Oakland, Calif. Police Misconduct Suits By Name
April 07, 2014 - A new WebSite has published over a thousand lawsuits filed in Oakland, CA for police misconduct. The lawsuits are researchable by name. www...
LexisNexis Database Helps Feds In Collecting Taxes
April 03, 2014 - Identity thieves are stealing billions of dollars a year through fraudulent tax refunds—and the IRS isn't the only target. The 43 states...
Federal Reserve's Chair Yellen's Real-Life Examples of Unemployed Omit Criminal Records
April 02, 2014 - In her first speech as Federal Reserve chair, Janet Yellen told the stories of three people who had trouble finding work to illustrate her concern...
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