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Dennis Brownstein's Extreme Court News
December 26, 2012 - A lawyer has admitted faking the pursuit of a two-year sexual assault case, forging documents and judgments and attending non-existent hearings on behalf of a couple in the south of France. The fraud was only revealed when the couple contacted the Court of Appeal in Nîmes directly for news on their case, only to find it never existed. They had contacted the solicitor, who has not been named, after a charge of sexual harassment involving their daughter was dropped for lack of evidence. The original charge was that in March 2008 a health worker had touched their daughter, aged 15, in a sexual manner while she was in hospital. Following the decision of state prosecutors not to pursue the case, the solicitor informe...
NAPBS Accreditation - A Suggested Approach by Derek Hinton
December 22, 2012 - The blond spent an hour filling out the application for NAPBS Accreditation. The last question was the hardest, but finally, beside “Sign Her...
Les Rosen's Corner
December 19, 2012 - On January 1, 2013, new E-Verify laws will take effect in Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee requiring many private em...
How To Avoid Lawsuits
December 16, 2012 - by Steven Brownstein I'd say it's getting out of hand. I've never seen so many lawsuits filed against pre-employment screening...
What Is The Weakness In Criminal Records Usage By Pre-Employment Screening Companies?
December 14, 2012 - The world of criminal records is not very complex. A person is accused, arrested, processed through a system (of some sort). And in most pl...
Race Does Play A Part In Background Checks
December 10, 2012 - by Steven Brownstein In a recent news release, Nick Fishman, EmployeeScreenIQ, testified that when a criminal record is revealed, the backgroun...
Government Court Database Glitches Affect Background Checks
December 04, 2012 - by Steven Brownstein An interesting set of circumstances occurred recently. A court database had a glitch (bug, virus, flaw, etc....)...
Air Force May Limit Access To Criminal Records
December 01, 2012 - The Air Force is changing the rules on how the media and general public get information about airmen accused of crimes. A recent Air Force Inst...
Woman Has Lost Right To Know Father
December 01, 2012 - A woman who wanted to know the identity of her sperm-donor father is taking her case to Canada's top court after the B.C. Court of Appeal threw...
Researchers Charge Racial Profiling On Online Criminal Record Websites
December 01, 2012 - Two Harvard researchers charged that a website which catalogs mug shots and criminal records engages in racial profiling in its advertising—j...
Government At Fault For Many Criminal Record Errors
December 01, 2012 - by Dick Baggett There are various reasons the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission decided to reissue guidance on the use of criminal and ar...
Workplace Violence Caused Nearly 17 Percent Of All Fatal U.S. Work Injuries In 2011
December 01, 2012 - According to the 2011 Census of Fatal Occupation Injuries, workplace violence was the cause of nearly 17 percent of workplace fatalities in the U.S...
NAPBS Offers Tips For Screening Job Candidates in 2013
December 01, 2012 - As employers begin to plan business strategies for the upcoming year, there is no question that personnel needs will be high on their to-do lists....
Nanomaterial Can Stop A Speeding Bullet
December 01, 2012 - Researchers at a Rice University lab are researching technology that that could potentially stop a 9-millimeter bullet and seal the entryway behind...
Ex-NASA Scientist’s Data Fears Come True
December 01, 2012 - In 2007, Robert M. Nelson, an astronomer, and 27 other scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory sued NASA arguing that the space agency&rsquo...
Les Rosen's Corner
December 01, 2012 - A large background screening firm facing a class action lawsuit alleging inaccurate reports in violation of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (...
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 at...
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,...
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