Nebraska Man Accused of Running Background Check Scam
By Thomas Ahearn, ESR News Staff Writer A recent news story from Nebraska suggests that the next time you want a background check company to run a background check for you, you may want to run a background check on the background check company first to see if they run real background checks. According to a report by [...]
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FBI Letter Responds To NY Times Editorial on Flawed Criminal Background Checks
By Thomas Ahearn, ESR News Staff Writer The New York Times recently printed a letter from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) responding to an earlier Times editorial – ‘Check It Again’ – that discussed the accuracy of data the FBI relies on when performing criminal background checks. The text of the letter, titled ‘Reliability of F.B.I. Data,’ is [...]
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NY Times Editorial Focuses On Flawed FBI Background Checks
By Thomas Ahearn, ESR Staff Writer A recent New York Times editorial – Check It Again – focused on a new bill in the House of Representatives that would require the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to verify and correct criminal data before issuing background checks for employment purposes, thus fixing the problem of many Americans [...]
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Bill Would Strengthen Accuracy of Employment Background Checks Using FBI Criminal Database
By Les Rosen, President of ESR & Thomas Ahearn, ESR Staff Writer Employers that rely on criminal records databases to conduct background checks on potential employees also rely on the accuracy of the information in those databases. Now a federal bill introduced in the House would help to strengthen the accuracy of the Federal Bureau of [...]
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Alleged Crime by Census Worker Casts Spotlight on Government Background Checks
By Thomas Ahearn, ESR Staff Writer In the wake of a census worker being accused of assaulting a young disabled woman in southern Indiana, questions have arisen about security issues surrounding the government background checks of the thousands of workers for the once-in-a-decade U.S. Census. According to a report on the WRTV Indianapolis News website, the mother [...]
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Jury Finds Housing Authority Negligent in Elderly Woman’s Murder after Tenant Background Check Misses Neighbor’s Criminal Past
By Thomas Ahearn, ESR Staff Writer In a story that shows the importance of using overlapping tools to do criminal background checks, a jury recently ruled that negligence by the Housing Authority in a North Carolina city led to an elderly woman’s death at the hands of her crack cocaine addicted neighbor in 2007. A story on [...]
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National Criminal Databases Always Work On TV Crime Dramas, Not Always In Real Life
By Thomas Ahearn, ESR Staff Writer According to popular TV crime dramas, today’s investigators – along with old fashioned gut instincts – use all technology at their disposal when it comes to tracking down and arresting the bad guys. One such technological advantage is a centrally located national computer database containing all past criminal records of [...]
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2010 trend on criminal databases
2010 Trends in Screening–Trend Four: The battle over databases will continue – the latest wrinkle is the proliferation of cheap “do-it-yourself” websites and even Iphone apps An ongoing area of controversy in the screening industry is the use of commercially assembled national multi jurisdictional databases. These databases are complied from numerous sources that will sell or make [...]
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Employment Screening Background Checks Annual Criminal Statistics
Various organizations publish their annual criminal “hit rates,” showing how many applicants subject to background screening had criminal records or other discrepancies. On one hand, these figures are extremely valuable because they confirm an already compelling case that background checks are critical for any employer that wants to exercise due diligence and protect its workforce [...]
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