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• What Your TV Habits May Say About Your Fear of Crime

  November 25, 2013 - What's your favorite prime-time crime show? Do you enjoy the fictional world of "CSI" or "Law & Order," or do you find real-life tales like "The First 48" or "Dateline" more engrossing? Your answers to those questions may say a lot about your fears and attitudes about crime, a new study finds. Researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln surveyed hundreds of adults about how often they watched various kinds of crime TV -- made-up dramas, documentary-style "real crime" programs, and local and national news. They found that how each type of program depicts crime was a factor in viewers' opinions on everything from their fear of crime to their confidence in the justice...

• Derek Hinton, "In My Opinion"

  November 25, 2013 - Congratulations to NAPBS—Our Industry Has Come a Long Way When I remember the days of working for a CRA in the 1980s, I am astounded at h...

• Record director for Clerk of Court helps people find 'treasure' in warehouse

  November 22, 2013 - Being in charge of a warehouse that holds tens of thousands of court documents and an untold number of other files wasn’t something Carlton M...

• Boxed In: How a Criminal Record Keeps You Unemployed For Life

  November 19, 2013 - Luis Rivera had some peace of mind for about five months, from late fall of 2010 through early spring of the following year. That’s the close...

• Background Check Firm To Pay $18M To End FCRA Claims

  November 18, 2013 - Two Verisk Analytics Inc. units agreed to pay $18.6 million to settle three proposed class actions accusing them of violating the Fair Credit Repor...

• Staffing for Verification

  November 15, 2013 - Achieving a state of equilibrium between verification volume and your capacity to process that volume is elusive at best. You can be overstaffed or...

• Keeping Secrets - The USA Experience

  November 12, 2013 - When Bradley Manning disclosed an estimated 700,000 classified documents in 2010, he was only 22 years old and held the second lowest rank in the U...

• Workplace Drug Testing More Common Among African American Workers Study Finds

  November 08, 2013 - African American workers are 17 percent more likely than white workers to report working for employers that perform workplace drug testing, acco...

• Departing Employees Are Security Horror

  November 07, 2013 - Technology has made it easier for departing employees to steal company information. Rather than sneak out documents, they need only download c...

• Concerned Employees Can Help Prevent Workplace Violence

  November 05, 2013 -   One of the best ways to prevent workplace violence is to encourage employees to speak up if they have concerns about a coworker's mental...

• New Way To Background Checks - Get A Dog

  November 04, 2013 - Man's best friend doesn't even begin to cover it. A South Carolina couple has their dog to thank for saving their infant son from an ab...

• Drug use high among commercial truck drivers

  November 04, 2013 - Truck drivers have challenging jobs and too often they put their own health and safety, as well as others', in danger by taking stimulants and...

• Extreme Court and Other News

  November 01, 2013 - by Dennis Brownstein Need convincing there's truth in the Godfather's movies? Read on: Waupaca County, Wisconsin authorities say th...

• Happy Halloween

  October 31, 2013 - Spooky, creepy, kind of eerie. Have a safe and happy Halloween. From staff and friends of The Background Investigator www.thebackground...

• San Bernardino County court cases to be reorganized

  October 31, 2013 - The Superior Court of San Bernardino County has released plans to reorganize local cases when the new Justice Center in downtown San Bernardino ope...

• Theft Policing in Spotlight

  October 31, 2013 - The methods that retailers and police use to combat theft have come under intense scrutiny after two black shoppers said that they had been accused...

• Bottom Line Drove Security Clearances at USIS

  October 30, 2013 - About seven months before his company gave Edward Snowden a clean background check, Bill Mixon was flogging his executives for not pushing security...

• Berlin dogs overdosing on drug users' excrement in parks

  October 30, 2013 - Vets in Germany's capital are warning about an increase in the number of dogs becoming ill and unable to walk properly, after eating the feces...