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• HireRight Saves University From Hiring Wrong People

  April 05, 2019 - The University of Illinois System withdrew 25 job offers following background checks last year, with seven job applicants having their offers revoked at the Urbana-Champaign campus. The background checks were made according to the guidelines of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, which is in accordance with the federal law. Before any background checks are conducted, however, a job applicant must first provide consent to the system’s vendor, HireRight, responsible for the checks before they are initiated. The FCRA requires that the candidates are provided with notifications concerning the background checks. The price of these checks averages to be 34 dollars. “At Urbana, we had only two contingent offers of regular civ...

• Sterling Was Accused About Lying How Their Record Searches Are Performed

  March 29, 2019 - A lawsuit suit says the company lied about using official court records, and had actually obtained the info from a bulk data collection service.ity...

• Background Checks And AI Are Not Mixing Well Causing Lawsuits

  March 28, 2019 - Background Checks And AI Are Not Mixing Well   One night last November, Seth Tucker ordered dinner from one of his favorite fast-food...

• Fairly New Company To Background Checks Has Suspected Data Flaws

  March 28, 2019 - Is Walmart Blacklisting Doctors? October 08, 2018 By Pat Anson, PNN Editor Carolyn Eastin has been a nurse practitioner in Arizona for nearly a dec...

• Many Large CRA's and Wholesalers Named in FCRA Lawsuits

  March 27, 2019 - It's a pretty sad day for pre-employment screening when corporate decisions are made to allow errors in criminal record reports because it is l...

• Did Sterling Use A Database for a County Record Search?

  March 27, 2019 - Lawsuit claims Sterling used a database for a Cook County (Chicago) criminal record search in violation of FCRA   Two federal lawsuits...

• This Ontario Law Could Hurt Sterling and Triton

  March 25, 2019 - This is an excerpt from a recently published Lexology article Restrictions on disclosing record checks An individual, person or organisatio...

• Straightline International Was Sued For Clerk of Court's Error

  March 22, 2019 - The Canadian company that allegedly did a background check on convicted girlfriend-beater and accused wife-murderer Ryan Jenkins for the show "...

• Improved Mexico Record Checks

  March 06, 2019 - Mexico Searches    A superior service is offered by Straightline International for those hard to get Mexico searches.  P...

• Helena Police and LCCSO Introduce Online Offender Search

  March 04, 2019 - The Lewis and Clark County Sheriff’s Office and the Helena Police Department are introducing a new tool to track registered sexual and violen...

• Maine’s highest court rules in favor of public access to state’s online court records

  February 26, 2019 - Maine’s new electronic court filing system will be available to the public for a fee, the state’s top judge said.   The Su...

• Harvard Law Just Released 6.5 Million Court Decisions Online

  February 26, 2019 - IIn a significant milestone for public access to the law, the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School on Monday published more than 40 million...

• Beware This Flawed Report

  February 23, 2019 - Yes, the companies represented in this artcle are very fine companies. The story is flawed by the presumption that these are the companies in t...

• Australia - Excluding candidates because of a criminal record may be unlawful

  February 23, 2019 - By Charles Power on January 18th, 2019 Discrimination on the basis of a candidate’s criminal record maybe unlawful unless it is based on...

• Impact on Employment and Recidivism

  February 23, 2019 - Impact on Employment and Recidivism Reducing the Number of Available Jobs   Criminal convictions have after-effects that extend fa...

• Uber and Lyft Can't Get Criminal Records Right

  February 23, 2019 - There's a plethora of articles that show Uber and Lyft cannot get criminal records right. Unfortunately,it ia sign of the deficiencies of t...

• How bloody was medieval life?

  February 22, 2019 - In the 1300s in northern France, a nasty character named Jacquemon bribed a jailer to let his unwanted son-in-law die a painful death in prison....

• How Rape Cases Went Wrong

  February 22, 2019 - Law enforcement agencies surveyed by CNN reported destroying rape kits after they stopped investigating cases. Reporters determined that hundre...