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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 investigation. There was just one snag: A person he claimed to have interviewed had been dead for more than a decade. Domico, who had worked for contractors CACI International Inc. (CACI) and Systems Application & Technologies Inc., found himself the subject of a federal probe. Domico is among 20 investigators who have pleaded guilty or have been convicted of falsifying such reports since 2006. Half of them worked for companies such as Altegrity Inc., which performed a background check on national-security contractor Edward Snowden. The cases may represent a fraction of the fabrication...
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,...
Background Check Practices Matter
July 02, 2013 - by Susan M. Heathfield There are advantages and disadvantages to using external experts to background check the credentials and history of your...
Faulty Criminal Record Checks Plague Sterling
June 26, 2013 - Few companies in New York—or anywhere else, for that matter—are growing as fast as Sterling Infosystems Inc. Its revenue has rocketed t...
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...
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...
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