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Top Stories
- The Perils of an "Internet Search-Only" Strategy
  Here is a breakdown of the risks and limitations of an "internet search-only" approach to international court records, particularly compared to the standard of care upheld by ex...
- Legal Compliance Spotlight: EEOC Lawsuits and the
  Legal Compliance Spotlight: EEOC Lawsuits and the Use of Criminal Records in Hiring Employers, are your background check policies compliant with the EEOC’s guidance on Title VII...
- DOB's , SSN's, and other identifiers for Court Rec
  ???? Subject Identification in Court Records While searching for court cases primarily relies on an individual's name, secondary subject identifiers are almost always...
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS
- Most Newcomers Lack Critical Knowledge of Internat
  PBSA APAC 2025: The International Background Screening Challenge The observation post-PBSA APAC 2025 is that most newcomers lack critical knowledge of international court record retri...
- Ukraine Court Online Judgment Tool
  Online Judgment Search Tool The Ukrainian judicial system provides a centralized, public online database for all court decisions. The online judgment search tool is called the Uni...
- Update on Access to England Court Records
  Which court documents are available to the public? And when? Judgments and orders Any Judgment or Order made 'in public' is a public document and aut...
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NATIONAL NEWS
- Kansas launches new court records search system wi
  Searching for Kansas court records just got easier and more comprehensive. The Kansas judicial branch announced the launch of the...
- Calcasieu Clerk of Court Conceals Violent Crime Re
  The policy maintained by the Calcasieu Parish Clerk of Court’s Office that requires a signed order from a judge to release violent crime records to the public is the su...
- Tulsa City Court Limits Public Access to Court Rec
  Court documents are supposed to be easily accessible to the public under Oklahoma’s open records law, but Tulsa Municipal Court has removed computer terminals where people could loo...
- More National News »
PRESS RELEASES
- Straightline International is proud to announce a
  HUGE news for global background screening! Straightline International is proud to announce a significant upgrade to our Cayman Islands Services. Following productive meetings with...
- Straightline International Sets the Record Straigh
  Straightline International is not a CRA. We are what PBSA defines as a Criminal Record Provider — and in fact, we are the original. Our role in the pre-employment screening ec...
- India -Employment fraud on the rise: EY Study call
  According to an EY study titled ‘The First Firewall: Background checks as India Inc.’s frontline defense’, employment frauds have surged significantly over the last year...
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Dennis Brownstein's Extreme Court News
December 01, 2012 - Two Colombian government employees arrested for selling sensitive information A former prosecutor and a clerk in Colombia’s office of attorney general were arrested for allegedly selling sensitive information about U.S. narcotics prosecutions in New York. The two Colombian nationals were arrested November 16 in Bogota and charged with obstruction of justice, said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). According to ICE HSI, an administrative services assistant in the office of the attorney general of Colombia, international affairs, and a former prosecutor at the attorney general’s office, were involved in a plot to obtain information on U.S. extradition requ...
BRB's Public Record Update
December 01, 2012 - Alabama Effective October 1, 2012, Chief Justice Chuck Malone entered an Order mandating that all attorneys must e-file their documents in civil,...
NBC TV's "Rossen Reports:" Background Check Mistakes Costs Jobs
December 01, 2012 - NBC TV's "Rossen Reports:" Background Check Mistakes Costs Jobs Rossen Reports: Background check mistakes cost jobs When you...
How We Punish Crime
December 01, 2012 - by Chip Corwin I was taught in law school that prison sentences have two purposes: to ensure public safety and to punish the offender. For the...
How Judges Set Bail
November 30, 2012 - by Judge Galler You have probably seen news stories about someone being arrested for a horrible crime and then heard that the judge set bail al...
Follow Up To Olympic Flag Seller Conviction
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Faking It - 'Clean' Urine
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Les Rosen's Corner
November 01, 2012 - CareerBuilder Study Finds Over 50 Percent of Employers Have Hired Job Applicants with Criminal Records A study from CareerBuilder of more than...

Top 10 Questions: Background Check Turnaround Times
November 01, 2012 - by Tandem Select We are in the business of helping to hire critical resources. Time to hire is an important measurement for most companies so i...
Get Me Out Of Here! Drunk On Board
November 01, 2012 - by Dennis Brownstein's Extreme Court News A drunk man on Delta Flight 1215 thought the plane was on fire when the aircraft landed in Salt L...
It Was The Bad Check That Did them In
November 01, 2012 - by Dennis Brownstein's Extreme Court News A Lawrenceville, Georgia couple was convicted for a tax defiance scheme after claiming that they...
Not A Good Idea To Bring Hand Grenade to Government Office
November 01, 2012 - by Dennis Brownstein's Extreme Court News A man recentlytook a grenade he found on a south Memphis,Tennessee lot to Memphis Fire Station No...
Think Having HIV Is Not a Crime? Think Again
November 01, 2012 - By Sean Strub At the beginning of the fourth decade of the HIV epidemic, profound stigma and discrimination is a fact of life for those with th...
Newark, NJ Bans The Background Check
November 01, 2012 - by Les Rosen Effective November 18, 2012, an Ordinance passed by Newark, New Jersey will impose restrictions on employers in the city with five...
Les Rosen's Corner
October 01, 2012 - According to regulations from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), three essential forms mandated by the federal Fair Credit Reporting...
A System For Compensating Victims That Needs Fixing
October 01, 2012 - by Hassan Hassan In pre-Islamic Arabian history, a cycle of revenge between two major tribe...
How We Fudge Cheating
October 01, 2012 - by Michael Roth Behavioural economist Dan Ariely is a funny guy on a mission. As director of the Centre for Advanced Hindsight, he insists on a...
Men Make Women Drink
October 01, 2012 - By Laura Berman A number of studies have highlighted the physical and emotional benefits of marriage: Research has shown that married people ar...