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• Watch Out Kids - Here Come The Background Checks

  February 01, 2012 - by Steven Brownstein SecureWatch, an ADT dealer, takes steps to make sure job applicants don't have criminal backgrounds. The company was shocked when a brand-new door-to-door sales rep it had hired, who Securewatch had checked out clean, was charged with raping and attempting to murder a potential customer. SecureWatch declined to name the company they hire to do background checks but said it is used by the industry's top security companies and is "supposedly the cream of the crop." The company reported Hales had no criminal background. "There was nothing. The guy was as clean as a whistle," Securewatch said. "Then it turned out because of the level of access we had in our commercial...

• Pepsi Settles Invented Discrimination Claim

  February 01, 2012 - by Justin Danhoff Over the last few weeks, I have been warning employers that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has invented a new fo...

• Are Background Check Hit Ratios Reliable?

  February 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?...

• Police Records, Court Records, Jail Records, Conviction Records, National Databases

  January 01, 2012 - by Steven Brownstein Just a week ago I was sitting in a large court's administration office. The Administrator was scratching his head....

• Canada: Suspect Your Employee Is Using Drugs Or Drinking? Our Opinion

  January 01, 2012 - by George wagott and lai Kin Hum Many Canadian employers are uncertain about the laws surrounding drug and alcohol tests for employees. Drug an...

• Closing Sales On Civil Searches

  January 01, 2012 - by Steven Brownstein Civil Record Searching can bring in $$$ if you can obtain the results that your client requested.  The most common ty...

• Straightline Criminal Records Test Of Courts And Police Records Produce Unexpected Result

  January 01, 2012 - by Steven Brownstein Last year, Straightline tested thousands of searches with both the court and police records. The closet study of this...

• Les Rosen's Corner

  January 01, 2012 - Jury Awards 7 Million Dollars to Family of Truck Driver Killed in Accident in Negligent Hiring Case The family of a truck driver killed in a 20...

• Background Checks: How Much Digging Is Too Much?

  January 01, 2012 - by Eve Tahmincioglu Background checks for job applicants have increasingly been the subject of debate and discussion in Delaware and elsewhere....

• Free License Background Checks For Saipan And Guam Businesses

  January 01, 2012 - Steven Brownstein announces a free license check promotion for Saipan and Guam businesses that employ or are interested in employing professsionals...

• Avoid Criminal Record - Get Good Job

  January 01, 2012 - As one of the world's foremost experts on criminal background checks, Steven Brownstein should be listened to. Brownstein catches u...

• Need Background Checks Done?

  January 01, 2012 - Steven Brownstein #1 Access To Criminal Records     Steven Brownstein is The Background Investigator Worldwi...

• Police Records, Court Records, Jail Records, Conviction Records, National Databases

  December 01, 2011 - by Steven Brownstein Just a week ago I was sitting in a large court's administration office.  The Administrator was scratching his...

• Child Porn Downloaded From Web? Life In Prison!

  December 01, 2011 - by Douglas Berman A circuit court judge in Florida clearly thinks so: On Thursday, he sentenced Daniel Enrique Guevara Vilca, 26, a stockroom w...

• Les Rosen's Corner

  December 01, 2011 - California Passes AB 22 Placing Restrictions on Use of Credit Checks by Employers Effective January 1, 2012, employers or prospective employers...

• Employment Acceleration Act of 2011 Prohibits Cities, Counties, and Special Districts in California

  December 01, 2011 - by Les Rosen While several U.S. states have passed laws requiring use of the electronic employment eligibility verification system known as E-V...

• Lindsay Lohan: Complete List of Lohan's Criminal And Rehab History

  December 01, 2011 - by Amy Kunkle Lindsay Lohan has served her most recent jail sentence of thirty day in approximately four and a half hours being released at 4am...

• CBS Posts AP Report That Gets It Wrong About Background Checks

  December 01, 2011 - CBS got it wrong. That's after AP got it wrong.  Maybe There Ought To Be A Correction. Regarding an artcle entitled, "AP IMPACT:...