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• 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 nature was performed in the late 90's by the State of Florida comparing name only checks to fingerprint ID checks. All of us who were around then remember the results.  Our  industry's term, "false positive", came as a result of that study. But what we resulted in our test result was unexpected and stunning. Do not bank on getting as many hits or any hits at all using police databases on a name check basis. The hit ratio from the court far exceeded the one from the state police by up to 50%. The test results are available for those seriou...

• 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:...

• Could You Survive a Social Media Background Check?

  November 01, 2011 - by Vivian Luckiewicz As of September 2011, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 14 million people are unemployed. At this rate, an...

• Checking In On Military Records

  November 01, 2011 - by Peg McNichol Raymond Schepansky's April 14 arrest made national news, which drew the attention of veterans from around the country who b...

• How To Use Ads In The Background Investigator To Make Your Business Grow

  November 01, 2011 - Small ads are the perfect way to promote a small business. And small ads WORK if you know a few simple things about how to write and place them....

• Should Faking a Name on Facebook Be a Felony?

  November 01, 2011 - by Orin S. Kerr Imagine that President Obama could order the arrest of anyone who broke a promise on the Internet. So you could be jailed fo...

• Les Rosen's Corner

  November 01, 2011 - Two US Senators Voice Privacy Concerns Over Background Check Firm Storing Web Footprints of Consumers for Employment Screening Concerned that s...

• Civil Rights, Labor Advocates Demand End To Employment Credit Checks

  November 01, 2011 - A coalition of 25 civil rights and labor advocacy groups petitioned one of the nation's largest credit-monitoring firms in October to quit sell...