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Retailers Track Employee Thefts in Vast Databases
April 07, 2013 - Facing a wave of employee theft, retailers across the country have helped amass vast databases of workers accused of stealing and are using that information to keep employees from working again in the industry. The repositories of information, like First Advantage Corporation’s Esteem database, often contain scant details about suspected thefts and routinely do not involve criminal charges. Still, the information can be enough to scuttle a job candidate’s chances. Some of the employees, who submit written statements after being questioned by store security officers, have no idea that they admitted committing a theft or that the information will remain in databases, according to interviews with consumer lawyers, regu...
Fake Twitter Followers Become Multimillion-Dollar Business
April 07, 2013 - Far from slowing, the market for fake Twitter followers seems to be taking off. The fake Twitter follower phenomenon made headlines last summer...
Do Criminal Record Disclosures Breach Our Human Rights?
April 05, 2013 - JURIST Guest Columnist Serge Diaz, University of Edinburgh School of Law Class of 2015, discusses the effects of a recent ruling by the UK Court of...
Denver police increasingly rely on video surveillance to solve crime
April 03, 2013 - Almost as soon as a gunman fired shots into a crowd during Saturday's massive marijuana smoke-out in Civic Center park, Denver police were on a...
Public Safety Technology in the News
April 02, 2013 - High-Tech NYPD Unit Tracks Criminals Through Facebook and Instagram Photos DNAInfo.com, (03/25/2013), Murray Weiss The New York Police Depart...
Mike Brownstein's Super Screening Blog
April 01, 2013 - State makes online background checks easier Want to know if your babysitter got busted for child abuse? If police pinched a would-be employee f...
Les Rosen's Corner
April 01, 2013 - USCIS Publishes New Form I-9 for Employment Eligibility Verification On March 8, 2013, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) p...
Dennis Brownstein's Extreme Court News
April 01, 2013 - Here Come The Judge He may be known as the "shirtless judge," but there's now concern about Wayne County Circuit Judge Wad...
Lake County, IL Going Online
April 01, 2013 - Court information will no longer be accessible just during business hours Monday through Friday. The Circuit Court will launch remote public ac...
Mike Brownstein's Super Screening Blog
March 25, 2013 - Hackers could be fair game for deadly force, cyberwar experts say Deadly force against organized hackers could be justified under international...
AZ Study Finds Serious Lapses In Criminal Background Check System
March 23, 2013 - A new state report shows lapses and gaps in the criminal background check system could put public safety at risk. The Arizona Criminal Justice...
How To Spot A Resume Fraud, Fake CV or Biography Lies
March 21, 2013 - There are certain things that you see in a resume, CV or biography that immediately raise some warning signs. Last week, while everyone was &ld...
California Proposal Would Charge $10 To Search Court Records
March 20, 2013 - In a move that is raising concern about limiting access to public documents, California courts could charge $10 for each record search under a prop...
Predicting and Preventing Wrongful Convictions
March 17, 2013 - Why are innocent people wrongfully convicted in certain cases yet acquitted in others? Could policy interventions prevent future erroneous convicti...
Dennis Brownstein's Extreme Court News
March 13, 2013 - Just Plain Dumb A drug defendant stunned an Ohio court by asking if he could have one more joint while haggling over the period during which he...
Most Murder Victims In Big Cities Have Criminal Records
March 07, 2013 - A review of murder statistics across America shows that in many large cities, up to 90 percent of the victims have criminal records. WND previo...
Cultural Differences Can Affect Crime And Justice
March 02, 2013 - When the parents of a Chinese national accused of sexually assaulting a woman in her Iowa City apartment flew to town in April to persuade the vict...
Arizona Raising Court Fees
March 01, 2013 - Fee changes are coming to many Arizona courts. Effective March 18, 2013 a series of fee increases are taking place for the AZ Superior Courts and J...
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