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• Top Ten Background Check Trends for 2014 Released by Employment Screening Resources

  March 26, 2014 - Employment Screening Resources® (ESR) has announced the release of the 7th Annual ‘ESR Top Ten Background Check Trends for 2014’ selected by ESR Founder and CEO Attorney Lester Rosen. For 2014, the “Ban the Box” movement to eliminate questions about criminal records on initial job applications to give ex-offenders a more level playing field when looking for work topped the list. The ESR Top Ten Background Check Trends for 2014 are available at http://www.esrcheck.com/ESR-Top-Ten-Background-Check-Trends. “For the seventh consecutive year, Employment Screening Resources has identified trends that will evolve as the background check industry matures,” says Rosen, author of ‘The Safe Hiring Man...

• Ohio Couple Volunteer To Organize Court Records

  March 24, 2014 - The haphazardly stashed court records sitting in the Washington County Courthouse attic are getting put in order through a slow process of voluntee...

• Peer References Require Special Tactics

  March 20, 2014 - by Craig Caddell The Joint Commission defines a peer as someone from the same discipline with essentially equal qualifications. To be able to p...

• Study Shows Record Number Of Criminal Exonerations

  March 19, 2014 - The number of exonerations of people wrongfully convicted of a crime in the United States rose to a record 87 last year — that’s 87 peo...

• Woman Forged Criminal Record Clearance Because She Was In A Hurry

  March 17, 2014 - You've got to love this: Woman Forged Criminal Record Clearance Because She Was In A Hurry A Warwick woman today admitted she forged...

• Providing Private Database-Only Criminal Records

  March 11, 2014 - Providing Private Database-Only Criminal Records I’m telling you, every time I run across a CRA that is providing private database-onl...

• Craig Caddell's Verification Tips

  March 07, 2014 - Language! Language! Language! You know the old saying “Location! Location! Location!” as it applies to restaurant success or failur...

• BRB Public Record Update

  March 05, 2014 -  San Luis Obispo Superior Court (CA) Cuts Criminal Record Services      With severe cutbacks in the budget and loss of...

• Les Rosen's Corner - California Law

  March 04, 2014 - New California Law Significantly Impacts Use of Past Criminal Records A new law in California that took effect January 1, 2014 – Senate Bill...

• Hiring People You Won't Have to Fire

  February 28, 2014 - I should have fired my first employee long before I did. If there was one area where my inexperience really showed when I started running my ow...

• Big Data Says You Should Hire Criminals

  February 26, 2014 - Evolv, a leader in big data workforce optimization, has discovered that criminals can make better employees than anyone else. Evolv calculates...

• Firefighter Says Background System Abused

  February 20, 2014 - A top official in the Buffalo Fire Department is accused of misusing the county’s criminal background check system to improperly snoop on at...

• Criminal record searches fall short and all that stuff

  February 18, 2014 - Bet you don't know how at least a third of your USA domestic and international searches are being done. Bet that that you probably don't kn...

• Top Executive at Security-Check Firm USIS Resigns

  February 14, 2014 - A top executive at the company that performed the most recent background check of former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden resigned after he w...

• OPM brings background investigation reviews in-house

  February 11, 2014 - The Office of Personnel Management has decided that final quality reviews for background investigations will be conducted by government employees &...

• Craig Caddell's Verification Tips

  February 04, 2014 - Finding Good Contact Information Job applicants are notorious for providing incorrect contact information for past employers. Some creative app...

• EEOC's criminal background check policy under fire

  February 03, 2014 - Race discrimination, federal administrative power, state law, and the right of a private company to choose its employees are colliding in a battle...

• Senior Managers Are The Worst Information Security Offenders

  January 29, 2014 - Senior managers pose a major security risk for companies, according to a Stroz Friedberg nationwide survey of 764 information workers. The surv...