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• Grim Times For Background Checkers

  July 01, 2012 - By Steven Brownstein Hardly a day goes by we don't hear something about the new EEOC ruling. We get news alerts, E-Mails, phone calls, each one forecasting the doom and gloom for the background check. Hardly a day goes by that we don't hear about a court somewhere removing identifiers from their computerized records. We get news alerts, E-Mails, phone calls, and messages telling us how difficult it is going to get to obtain confirmed "hits" from the courts. Recently, a company was sued for selling the new "social media" search. Soon,  hardly a day will go by where we won't hear about that. Hardly a day went by when we heard about credit reference checks being discriminatory...

• Dennis Brownstein's Extreme Court News

  July 01, 2012 - Police Gone Wild A South Carolina woman said police escorted her out of her daughter's graduation for cheering and charged her with disorde...

• Report Says Errors Are Common On Background Checks

  July 01, 2012 - by Paul Muschick | The Watchdog With jobs still scarce, employers can be choosier than ever before when deciding whom to hire. Many use backgro...

• National Association of Professional Background Screeners Study Affirms Accuracy of Background Check

  July 01, 2012 - by Tom Ahearn The National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS) has announced that a recent study of background screening c...

• Les Rosen's Corner

  July 01, 2012 - Vermont to Limit Employers From Using Credit Reports for Employment Decisions Starting July 1 Continuing the trend of states stopping employers...

• Indiana Gets Tough On Criminal Records

  July 01, 2012 - by Rod Fliegel, Jennifer Mora, and William Simmons The EEOC's April 25, 2012 updated enforcement guidance on the use of arrest and convicti...

• The Background On Philippines NBI Clearances

  June 01, 2012 - by Steven Brownstein The Philippines NBI query a name. They'll get matching name results from all cases reported from the whole country...

• Bogus Address Thwarts NBI Philippines Clearance - Employer Robbed

  June 01, 2012 - by Kawawang Ale, Philippines I would like to share to you the sad fate we faced with a maid who robbed us. Her name is Cecelia Lazo Pacis, a na...

• Press Release Writing 101: Five Steps to an Attention-Grabbing Lead

  June 01, 2012 - by Andrew Hindes You've got eight seconds. Or maybe just four. There are varying estimates as to the average amount of time journalists...

• Obama's EEOC Runs Amok

  June 01, 2012 - by Jennifer Rubin The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), th agency that enforces federal anti-discrimination laws, shook up employ...

• NAPBS Accreditation: The Grandfathering Issue

  June 01, 2012 - by Derek Hinton Answer: The La Brea Tar Pits. Question: What do you have left after eating the La Brea Tar Peaches?     &nbs...

• Les Rosen's Corner Les Is Quoted On NPR

  June 01, 2012 - In an article recently published on the National Public Radio (NPR) website, Attorney and safe hiring expert Lester Rosen, founder and CEO of backg...

• Les Rosen Reports:Report on inaccurate criminal background checks may itself contain inaccuracies

  May 01, 2012 - A new report on background check companies from the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) called "Broken Records: How Errors by Criminal Backgro...

• Nashville Conference Was Rather Good

  May 01, 2012 - by Steven Brownstein The weekend of April 15th-17th brought the pre-employment screening community together for its annual conference. It w...

• Why Sealed Records Do Not Keep FBI Fingerprint Records From Showing Up

  May 01, 2012 - by Ryan Dube One of the most common questions that people ask when they are faced with applying for a new job is whether or not their criminal...

• What Will an Arrest Record Search Reveal?

  May 01, 2012 - by Amanda DiSilvestro The principal purpose of an arrest record search is to help you identify the bad seeds in a sea of candidates. Conducting...

• Are Background Check Hit Ratios Reliable?

  May 01, 2012 - by Steven Brownstein Where in the world do criminal record hit ratios come from in the background screening business and how reliable are they?...

• Drop In Youth Crime Baffles Experts

  May 01, 2012 - by Jeffrey Butts The state of Florida transfers far more juvenile offenders to the criminal (adult) court system than any other state in the na...