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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 the year 2000. In slightly over a decade, background checks have gone from a luxury to a necessity, from a primarily government run endeavor to a substantial private sector business with a large number of firms providing service, and from a mostly expensive time and labor consuming task to, in some cases, a totally automated paperless solution. Factors behind the increased use of background checks include in large part to the shocking terrorist attacks that unfolded on September 11, 2001 as well as publicized incidents of workplace violence, multi-million dollar negligent h...
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...
Should Employers Check Job Applicants’ Credit History?
December 01, 2010 - By Ruth Mantell With the national unemployment rate at 9.6%, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is concerned about employers usin...
New Int'l Criminal Record Suppliers Simply Resellers
December 01, 2010 - Beware! by Steven Brownstein Several new advertisments have reached my desk selling international criminal record searches. They have r...
Mistaken Identity Over Incest Claim Was 'Devastating'
November 01, 2010 - By Chris O'Brien and Andree Withey A grandfather from the Darling Downs in southern Queensland who was wrongly accused of rape and incest s...
Is An Employment Background Check Ever Too Invasive?
November 01, 2010 - By Ashby Jones Generally speaking, the government can ask for background checks for employees of defense contractors. But are there limits...
Tale Of Two Calvins: One Keeps Going To Jail For Other's Offenses
November 01, 2010 - by Cynthia Hubert Calvin Ward is nearly 6 feet tall and African American. Calvin Phillips, according to records, is about 4 inches shorter and...
Straightline International Leads Industry In Overseas Criminal Record Checks
January 01, 2010 - For the tenth straight year, Straightline International has led the U.S. and world markets in providing criminal record cheks for foreign searches....
Starting A Business Looked To As A Way Forward For Ex-Inmates
December 31, 1969 - by Marcia Pledger For nearly 10 years, Augustus Turner had a lot of time to ponder an American dream that he refused to believe was out of reac...
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