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Seattle Joins The 'Limit Your Use of Criminal Records' Wave
June 25, 2013 - Effective November 1, 2013, Seattle, Washington will join various other jurisdictions (most recently Minnesota, Indiana, North Carolina and Buffalo, New York) that limit inquiries into and the use of criminal records for employment purposes.1 On June 10, 2013, the Seattle City Council adopted Council Bill 117796 (the "Ordinance"), which Mayor Mike McGinn is expected to sign.2 The Ordinance provides for administrative enforcement but affords no private right of action. Nonetheless, employers with operations or employees in Seattle should review the prohibitions in the Ordinance and should also continue to monitor related developments across the U.S. Using criminal record information for employment purposes is c...
HireRight, USIS Nailed Again - Big Time
June 21, 2013 - Federal inspectors have been conducting a criminal investigation for more than a year of the company that performed a background check on Edward Sn...
Jefferson County NY to Let Deputies Carry Overdose-Reversal Drug
June 19, 2013 - Sheriff’s deputies in New York’s Jefferson County may soon join those in neighboring counties in carrying and administering the anti-ov...
Employment Checks Fuel Race Complaints
June 18, 2013 - Federal regulators Tuesday accused two large employers of improperly using criminal-background checks in hiring, the latest salvo in a contentious...
Background checks land Dollar General in feds' hot seat
June 17, 2013 - Dollar General Corp. has been hit with a lawsuit from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which alleges the discount retailer's c...
Federal agency sues BMW over background checks
June 14, 2013 - BMW Manufacturing Co.'s criminal background check policy disproportionately excluded blacks from working at the company's South Carolina pl...
College Professor Suggests Altering Genes To Prevent Criminal Behavior?
June 12, 2013 - Dr. Christopher J. Ferguson, university chair and associate professor of psychology at TAMU, lead the study and suggests genetics is a high-cont...
Liberal Calls For Jailing Teenage School Bullies
June 10, 2013 - Adults who say they bullied others when they were adolescents may have a higher likelihood of engaging in criminal behavior later in life, accordin...
Sex Offender Had No Record
June 07, 2013 - A bus monitor has been charged with molesting a disabled 9-year-old girl who cannot speak. Robert Hoff, 61, who worked as a bus monitor for 2&f...
Criminal Record Causes Building Collapse
June 07, 2013 - The contractor of the building that collapsed in Philadelphia's Center City has a criminal record. Sources also say the crane operator...
Some Toronto Driving Records Now Online
June 04, 2013 - The public can now access records of bad taxi and tow truck drivers in Toronto. Detailed records of hearings where drivers were convicted of se...
Australians Warn Against Cruise Ship Crime
May 29, 2013 - Australian cruise ship passengers who fall victim to serious crime may find their cases handled in countries with poor human rights records, a lead...
Criminal Data Specialists Joins County House Research
May 29, 2013 - As of April 1, 2013, Criminal Data Specialists of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania has joined the County House Research, Inc. family of companies. F...
Best Practice Standards for Proper Use of Criminal Records in Hiring Addressed in New Report
May 28, 2013 - A group of national civil and workers’ rights organizations has released a new report titled ‘Best Practice Standards: The Proper Use o...
Beijing cracking down on illegal barbecues
May 23, 2013 - Beijing is stepping up efforts to reduce illegal barbeques, to cut down on roadside air and noise pollution. May is the peak time for ou...
Les Rosen's Corner
May 22, 2013 - The average annual rate of workplace violence perpetrated against local, county, state, and federal government employees in 2011 was three times gr...
Les Rosen's Corner
May 17, 2013 - Federal Trade Commission Large databases that track employee thefts and could prevent workers accused of theft in the past from finding new jobs in...
Washington State Courts Office Suffers Data Breach
May 15, 2013 - Washington State Courts Office Suffers Data BreachOn Thursday, May 9, the Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) announced that...
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