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Les Rosen Gives Advice to Congress and the FCRA
February 03, 2021 - FCRA lawsuits will continue to serve as legal compliance signposts for employers conducting background checks on job applicants, according to leading global background check provider Employment Screening Resources. “Congress and regulators should consider providing an official form for the disclosure requirements under the FCRA, rather than make employers guess at what is compliant,” explained Attorney Lester Rosen. “A great deal of class action litigation has been based on arguments over the exact verbiage in the disclosure form, even though there is little if any evidence any consumers are actually harmed if the form is not perfect.” Rosen, the founder and...
Accuracy of Criminal Records Used for Background Checks Will Become New Area of Litigation
January 23, 2021 - The accuracy of job applicant criminal records used by employers and consumer reporting agencies (CRAs) to conduct background checks will become a...
Owens Online Upgrades Their Website
January 21, 2021 - Owens Online Upgrades Their Website New Features and Benefits: --Mobile-friendly. Our new responsive design allows yo...
Lawsuit raises concerns about limited access to Travis County, Texas court records amid pandemic
January 19, 2021 - A lawsuit filed against Travis County's manager of court records argues that her office is violating the First Amendment by not offering the me...
DBS Check Delays - Why?
September 12, 2020 - Here are some of the most common causes for delays in the DBS process: Paper application forms. One decision that will impact how lo...
Why Civil Searches Are delayed
September 03, 2020 - Civil searches are usually slower than criminal for many reasons. The main reason is that you don't get the result at the...
Selling Terroist List namechecks Can Get You In Trouble
August 30, 2020 - On August 24, 2020, a Pennsylvania man filed a class action lawsuit in federal court claiming TransUnion violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FC...
The Purgatory of Digital Punishment
July 06, 2020 - By SARAH ESTHER LAGESON It doesn’t matter whether they’re accurate—criminal records are all over the internet, whe...
APPRISS Stuck in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act Lawsuit
May 17, 2020 - For those wondering where the limit on Telephone Consumer Protection Act wrong number cases might be, keep looking. A state vendor i...
Due Diligence and Background Checks in the Age of Coronavirus
May 13, 2020 - What is an Employer to do? Eight Frequently Discussed Issues byLester Rosen Even with the Coronavirus and the near-total shutdow...
My Experience Before A Data Privacy Commission
May 12, 2020 - My experience - I've been called in front of the Office for Personal Data Protection – Macao SAR Government, including their legal...
Steven Brownstein Is The Expert At Calling The Courts
April 12, 2020 - Back in the 80's and 90's we had to call the courts. In the "old days" we didn't have internet or online access.&nb...
Coronavirus Domino-Effect On Background Check Services
March 15, 2020 - We can't run from it. We can't hide from it. Government services are being affected - one of them being our access to...
Why Was A 22GB database Containing 56 million US folks' Personal Details Sitting On The Open Interne
March 11, 2020 - A database containing the personal details of 56.25m US residents – from names and home addresses to phone numbers and...
India to Have World’s Largest Auto Facial Recognition System iI 2021
March 10, 2020 - The Central government has announced that it has given its approval for the implementation of the Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS). This...
Analysis: Errors In Illinois Criminal History Data Can Undermine Background Checks
March 09, 2020 - A crack in the system Megan Berkel had a clean record and had been listed as work eligible in the Health Care Worker Registry for si...
10 Top APIs for Crime
March 09, 2020 - Developers looking to create applications for crime fighting can find dozens of Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs in the Crime category o...
Why Journalists Need To Think Twice About Reporting On Arrests
February 28, 2020 - Perhaps, we, too. Last month, out of Omaha, a documentary that follows twin brothers Darcell and Darrell Trotter through eight years...
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