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Jobless Blacks Should Cheer Background Checks
August 28, 2013 - by Jason Riley The Obama administration took one on the chin earlier this month when a federal court ruled that companies may use criminal-background checks in hiring without being guilty of racial discrimination. Employers are thrilled about the decision, obviously. Less obvious is that the black unemployed, whose numbers have swelled under President Obama, also have reason to cheer. The case dates to 2009, when the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued Freeman Co., an event management firm. The EEOC alleged that the company's criminal-background checks for job applicants discriminated against blacks, who in general are more likely than other groups to have criminal histories. Judge Roger Titus of the U.S. Distric...
Pope, Vatican Criminalizes Leaks, Sex Abuse in First Laws
August 27, 2013 - Pope Francis has overhauled the laws that govern the Vatican City State, criminalizing leaks of Vatican information and specifically listing sexual...
Oregon Court: Online Filing Repository Is A Public Record
August 27, 2013 - The state online repository of court files is a public record, the Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled, overturning a lower-court judgment that put t...
False FBI Background Checks Have Hurt More Than Half A Million American's Job Searches
August 27, 2013 - by Trisha Marczak For Americans vying for a spot in today’s weakened job market, the formula for success is a little more complicated th...
Drunken-Driving Limit Should Be Lowered to .05, NTSB Says
August 22, 2013 - A National Transportation Safety Board recommendation for states to lower the definition of drunken driving to a blood-alcohol reading of no more t...
What follows after a domestic violence arrest
August 17, 2013 - by Richard Nedlin One of the most humbling and frightening experiences one can have is being arrested, stripped of your clothing and personal i...
Small Businesses Say U.S. Background-Check System Has Drawbacks
August 09, 2013 - Since January, Daniel VanLoh has turned away nine new dishwashers and one line cook from his four Atlanta, Ga., restaurants within days of hiring t...
Rise In Violence 'Linked To Climate Change'
August 07, 2013 - US scientists found that even small changes in temperature or rainfall correlated with a rise in assaults, rapes and murders, as well as group conf...
When openness backfires: Is there room for more gray area in how court records are made public?
August 01, 2013 - By Linda Kinstler Is more public access to court records always a good thing? Not according to Sophie Hood and Helen Nissenbaum of NYU’s...
Court Fines Euro Disney For Illegal Criminal Record Check
July 31, 2013 - A French court fined Euro Disney 150,000 euros ($195,000) for having illegal criminal checks carried out on potential employees at its Disneyland P...
Can Screening Companies' Attitudes Be Part Of The Problem?
July 29, 2013 - Reprinted from Lehigh Valley Morning Call October 16, 2010 by Paul Muschick Angela Price has never been to Illinois. But a bac...
Doughnuts Are The Key To Falling Crime In England
July 25, 2013 - by Matthew Norman The annual England crime figures were released and with them deepened one of the impenetrable mysteries of the age. Once agai...
College Dean With Criminal Record Shows Flaws In Background Checks
July 24, 2013 - by Steven Brownstein A recent uncovering of a felony record of a Delaware State University dean magnifies the problems in the background...
Dead Among Those Interviewed in Faulty Background Checks
July 16, 2013 - Anthony J. Domico, a former contractor hired to check the backgrounds of U.S. government workers, filed a 2006 report with the results of an invest...
Sterling Labels Innocent Man Incorrectly
July 15, 2013 - It's been a tough year for Steven Williams. First, his father passed away. So in February, while living in Arizona, he decided to sta...
Unemployment Due To Criminal Record Causes Mental Disturbances
July 12, 2013 - by Lynn Todman Imagine being chronically unemployed. How would you feel? Hopeless? Depressed? Anxious? These feelings are not uncommon for...
Has Sex Offender List Reseller Posted Wrong Information?
July 11, 2013 - Operators of the website Sexoffenderin.com charge people to remove false information about them from its Internet postings, a class action claims i...
The EEOC: I Think They Mean it
July 08, 2013 - Back in the days when I was lucky enough to avoid a long rap sheet, my Father would often verbally take me to the woodshed. After he was finished,...
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