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Centrally Located Criminal Court Search Flawed
May 01, 2011 - by Steven Brownstein When you check central courts, and central courts only, the habit (and now NAPBS guideline) of omitting background checks at outlying courts can look pretty irrersponsible. Especially if the subject applicant has a misdemeanor record at one the outlying courts. Or how about multiple misdemeanor records at an outlying court? Take Arizona, for instance. Many incorporated cities or towns have a municipal court, also known as a city court or magistrate court. Municipal courts have criminal jurisdiction over misdemeanor crimes and petty offenses committed in their city or town. They share jurisdiction with justice courts over violations of state law committed within their city or...
Dennis Brownstein And Straightline International Revamp Turn_Around Times
April 01, 2011 - by Steven Brownstein Straightline International Makes Record Search Turnaround Time Calculations As Easy As Clicking A Button My brother, D...
Criminal Association In Cyberspace
April 01, 2011 - by Art Bowker A prohibition against any criminal associations is a standard condition common in community supervision (probation, parole, super...
The Long Shadow Of A Criminal Record
April 01, 2011 - by Erik Roskes I have a patient who carries a conviction for a very serious felony. In 2001, he was convicted, and given probation and a...
Les Rosen's Corner Court Rules Staffing Firm that Outsources Background Checks Cannot be Sued Unde
April 01, 2011 - A staffing firm that places individuals in temporary positions with independent employers cannot be sued under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Ac...
TV Star From "The Wire" Arrested
March 01, 2011 - by Steven Brownstein Ever watch on HBO the series, "The Wire?" A gang banging, drug dealing killer on the show, Snoop, real...
Texas Law On Reference Checks
March 01, 2011 - by Dick Baggett There are two sets of what are called FEPAs (Fair Employment Practice Acts) in the U.S. Most employers are “somewhat&rdqu...
How Much Should Employers Know?
March 01, 2011 - by Emily Gurnon After a 15-year-old girl was raped by a convicted sex offender who worked at RadioShack in New Prague, MN, her mother and...
Industry in India Must Wake Up To Rising Corporate Fraud
March 01, 2011 - by Garry Singh & Abhinav Mohindru Experience is a hard school, but fools will learn no other.” This often-written line by s...
Justice Department Beefs Up Foreign Corruption Act Enforcement
March 01, 2011 - By John Pappalardo and Kara Bombach In recent years, U.S. government officials have acknowledged the increasing focus on Foreign Corrupt Practi...
Les Rosen's Corner NASA and Background Checks
March 01, 2011 - In a case pitting individual privacy rights of citizens against national security concerns of a country, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously overtur...
Patience Prevails While Awaiting Japanese Public Record Searches
March 01, 2011 - by Steven Brownstein Luckily, I left Tokyo with my wife, Rhoda, on Thursday, the day before the horrible earthquake and tsunami. And our is...
Straightline International Visited the Sydney, Australia Central Criminal Courthouse Pictured Above
March 01, 2011 - By Steven Brownstein You probably didn't know this but Australia lies just a little more than four hours flying time from Saipan. This...
Maryland Courts Get Online System Update
March 01, 2011 - Online Court Records: Now You See Them, Now You Don’t By Edward Ericson Jr. Users of the state’s online court records database...
Justice Denied - Illegals In The USA
February 01, 2011 - By Stephanie Czekalinski Being in the United States without the government's permission, such as after a visa expires, is a violation of ci...
Rhode Island Truants Who Offend Magistrates Are Sent Straight To Jail
February 01, 2011 - By Lynn Arditi For years, magistrates for Rhode Island Family Court’s truancy program have imprisoned students who misbehave during heari...
Background Check Industry Has Changed Much in Years from 2000 to 2010
February 01, 2011 - By Thomas Ahearn With the year 2011 now upon us, the time seems right to look back at how much the background check industry has changed since...
Les Rosen's Corner - Inaccurate Criminal Background Check Information Leaves Innocent Man Jobless
February 01, 2011 - A man from North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was stunned after he was fired from his job at a video-game store for ‘nondisclosure of informati...
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