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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 Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement. The government has been transparent about its priority to target individuals and companies who make improper payments or offer anything of value to foreign government officials for purposes of obtaining or retaining business. For U.S. and international businesses and their individual officers, directors and employees, however, such generalized statements about FCPA enforcement priorities take on new significance when put in terms of hard numbers of investigations, fines and convictions. In 2009, the Department of Justice set a record for numbers indicted and...
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...
Giant Blizzard Brings A Halt To Criminal Record Searches
February 01, 2011 - by Steven Brownstein Today, February 2nd, a giant blizzard in the Midwest USA and the East Coast has brought to a halt most activities inc...
Does Your Criminal Records Vendor Really Do Searches?
February 01, 2011 - By Steven Brownstein Many of you who know me personally have heard many of my calls for getting to know your vendor. Why? Because it...
How to Handle Employee Drug Use in the Workplace
January 01, 2011 - by Bill Clifton When an employee reveals that he or she has a drug or alcohol problem, employers have a number of options. If the drug use...
Les Rosen's Corner SHRM Defends Use of Credit Reports
January 01, 2011 - According to a news story on the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) website - "SHRM: Credit Checks Are Legitimate Screening Tool&quo...
Steven Brownstein And The Creation Of NAPBS
January 01, 2011 - by Les Rosen, ESR The chronology: 2000: There is no national trade association, industry standards, or definitive publications on backgroun...
The Real Deal Behind India Criminal Record Searches
January 01, 2011 - Criminal Records History Retrieval - India by Steven Brownstein Briefly (We will use Bangalore, Karnataka as an example): In...
Getting Things Done -Public Access To Court Records
January 01, 2011 - by Steven Brownstein Getting Things Done -Public Access To Court Records "You can't do that." I still hear those words....
German Data Privacy Act And Background Checks
January 01, 2011 - by Steven Brownstein A recent correspondence from Straightline International and the office of The German Federal Commissioner for Data Protect...
Les Rosen's Corner New California Bill To Regulate Offshoring Of Background Checks Overseas
December 01, 2010 - On September 29, 2010, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law California Senate Bill 909 (SB 909), which appears to be the first law in the...
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