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Watch Out Kids - Here Come The Background Checks
February 01, 2012 posted by Steve Brownstein
by Steven Brownstein
SecureWatch, an ADT dealer, takes steps to make sure job applicants don't have criminal backgrounds.
The company was shocked when a brand-new door-to-door sales rep it had hired, who Securewatch had checked out clean, was charged with raping and attempting to murder a potential customer.
SecureWatch declined to name the company they hire to do background checks but said it is used by the industry's top security companies and is "supposedly the cream of the crop."
The company reported Hales had no criminal background.
"There was nothing. The guy was as clean as a whistle," Securewatch said. "Then it turned out because of the level of access we had in our commercial background search, we didn't see until I read in the paper that he had some juvenile offenses."
The sales rep previously was charged with misdemeanor offenses'battery when he was 14 and trespassing when he was 15.
So the underlying question is, was the rep charged as an adult, and if not, are we now we insisting juvenile records get reported?
