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Napa teacher in court to face 10 sex-related charges (11/20/2008) Santa Rosa Press Democrat - Santa Rosa,CA,USA Napa records show Estrada passed two background checks before being hired at the district. He was previously a teacher in New York City, Linsey said. ...
Crimes by Air Marshals Raise Questions about Hiring (11/13/2008) USA Today - USA And even after notice that background checks were poor, the agency failed to root out air marshals with troubled pasts before they committed felonies. ...
Harder to Get Hired (11/10/2008) Boston Herald - United States Employers also are doing a lot of background digging: criminal, credit and even Registry of Motor Vehicle background checks. “Even with a hotel, ...
Police: Scam Artist Targeted Job-Seekers (11/8/2008) Memphis Commercial Appeal - Memphis,TN,USA According to the affidavit, Silliano admitted that “he” took $69 each from applicants but did not conduct background checks. Silliano is being held at Jail ...
Screening via social media sites may leave employers exposed
(10/17/2008) San Jose Business Journal (subscription) - CA,USA ... a law requiring written consent to conduct background checks and full disclosure of whether or not a decision relied upon that information. ...US Identity Theft Convictions Increase 26 Percent, Feds Say (8/21/2008) Wired News - USA Identity Theft Federal identity theft convictions increased 26 percent in 2007 from the year prior, according to a Bush administration task force report on identity theft unveiled Tuesday.
Audit: Nevada Agency Releases Flawed Background Checks (9/25/2008) KTVN Reno- A Legislative audit has found that for four years the Department of Public Safety's Records and Technology Division released flawed background check information to companies.
Jackson Lewis Survey Finds Employers Screen Employees' Use 0f ... (9/17/2008) MarketWatch - USA "On the contrary, taking adverse employment action against employees on the basis of their protected recreational activities outside of the workplace is ...
Report finds dozens of PIAA officials with criminal backgrounds (9/17/2008) Philadelphia Daily News - Philadelphia,PA,USA "We're investigating looking into different varieties of background checks working with the Pennsylvania Department of Education to determine requirements," ...
Bad mortgage brokers ran wild, Florida admits (9/17/2008) MiamiHerald.com - Miami,FL,USA Of those, more than 4000 cleared OFR background checks despite criminal pasts, with most committing offenses that state law required the agency to screen ...
Smaller Firms Vulnerable to Fraud (8/15/2008) Inc.com - New York,NY,USA Among other fraud prevention tips, it suggests small-business owners adopt a code of ethics for all employees, conduct thorough background checks on new ...
Homeland Security’s hiring procedure comes under fire (8/9/2008) Star Tribune- Minneapolis One week after ousting disgraced Minnesota transportation official Sonia Pitt from the job she found at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the massive federal agency has taken a new step to beef up its vetting of potential hires.
CPS instructor, Berwyn cops turn up on list of possible bogus degree recipients (8/5/2008) Chicago Tribune A federal list of suspected buyers of bogus degrees from a Washington state criminal diploma scheme includes a Chicago Public Schools instructor and five current or former Berwyn police officers . . .
Bogus diploma ring busted with help from U. of I. professor (8/4/2008) Chicago Tribune Dubbed Operation Gold Seal by federal investigators, the case exploded into the national news last week with the publication of the names of some 9,600 possible buyers of junk degrees from the phony "St. Regis University" . . .
Hochuli: Donaghy's case "caused pause for concern" (7/31/2008) Chicago Sun-Times - United States Hochuli said too many checks are in place in the NFL, including background checks given to officials every two years that include a check of financial ...
1900 Convicts Found Working in State Day Cares Due to Poor Background Checks (7/22/2008) MLive.com - MI,USA DHS officials agreed with the audit's findings and said they began running additional background checks in April 2007 after being informed the department's ...
When Scott Almeida Walked Out of Federal Prison and Into the ... (7/20/2008 MiamiHerald.com - Miami,FL,USA OFR officials who do the screening said there is no single standard used to decide who gets a license: The criminal background check is just one of many ...
Del Biaggio Was Able to Bypass NHL Background Checks: Report National Post Nashville Predators part-owner William (Boots) Del Biaggio III, who has filed for bankruptcy and has been accused of defrauding millions of dollars in loans, was allowed to bypass some of the National Hockey League's financial background checks for prospective owners, Nashville newspaper The Tennessean reported Thursday.
Cases of Abuse By Home Aides (7/15/2008) Wall Street Journal - USA On its Web site, Visiting Angels says it "runs a comprehensive background screening on each new caregiver," a claim that Mr. Stovall says gave him ...
Firefighter Arsons Raise Questions About Screening Volunteers (7/13/2008) Barre Montpelier Times Argus - Barre,VT,USA While professional departments in Vermont require background checks, various officials all said there was no statewide requirement. ...
Sun Country Employees Admits Stealing $200000-Plus From Airline (7/8/2008) Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA Sun County said today that in 1998, when Dillon-Love was hired, it was only doing background checks for employees who worked on airport property. ...
Rape Case Against Counselor Puts Camps On Guard (7/7/2008) Wall Street Journal - USA "We were surprised given his excellent references, clean criminal background checks and his conduct at Tripp Lake in the past," she wrote. ...
Theaters Mull Background Checks After Arrest of Longmont Actor (7/3/2008) Longmont Daily Times-Call - Longmont,CO,USA By Quentin Young LONGMONT — California Actors Theatre doesn’t conduct background checks on cast and crew members. Neither does Jesters Dinner Theatre. ...
Data Breaches Are Up 69% This Year, Nonprofit Says (7/1/2008)-Washington Post The Identity Theft Resource Center in San Diego tracked 342 data breach reports from Jan. 1 to June 27. More than one-third of the reports came from businesses, a 27 percent increase over business breaches for all of 2007.
New Law Calls for Retroactive Criminal Checks of Teachers The News-Press (6/29/2008) - Fort Myers,FL,USA The law includes required procedures for background checks, prohibits confidentiality agreements that hide criminality from future employers and requires ...
South Suburban Worker: Boss Lost Sensitive ID Documents Trying to Cover it Up (6/27/2008) My Fox Colorado.com - Denver,CO,USA Tess Hedrick tells Fox 31 news that a supervisor lost background checks and sensitive personal information of employees--and is trying to cover it up. ...
Top Personnel Official Pressured to Resign Washington Post - United States "Based on the briefings we've received from the Capitol Police, there was a very serious problem and a failure to do adequate background checks. ...
Police Recruits Failed Criminal Background Checks (6/24/2008) News Channel 8 - Washington,DC,USA Several police academy trainees have resigned after officials discovered that they had been hired despite failing the standard criminal background checks. ...
How Bad Credit Can Affect Your Job (6/24/2008) ABC News - USA The majority of employers today use some form of background checks as part of their due diligence — not because they're interested in prying or playing ...
One in Three IT Staff Snoops on Co-Workers: Survey (6/19/2008) Frankfurt (Reuters) One in three information technology professionals abuses administrative passwords to access confidential data such as colleagues' salary details, personal emails or board-meeting minutes, according to a survey.
Minister Blackburn Announces New Regulations to Prevent Workplace ... (6/17/2008) Market Wire (press release) - USA Under the new regulations, employers must develop a policy to prevent workplace violence, including bullying, teasing, or abusive behaviour, ...
Overachievement Without Achievement (6/11/2008) Forbes - NY,USA Such costly checks usually include a drug test, background check and credit check; some firms even hire a private detective. But most companies don't have ...
DCF Employee Screening (6/10/2008 Tampa Bay's 10 - St. Petersburg,FL,USA ... our selection process in general but also look at our background screening of all of our employees,” said Darren Brooks, DCF Human Resource Director. ...
SC Began Background Checks After the Gamecocks Went on Probation (6/9/2008) SI.com - USA COLUMBIA, SC (AP) -- South Carolina's athletic department started criminal background checks on prospective coaches and administrators a few months after ...
Police Miss Background Checks (6/5/2008) The Hill - Washington,DC,USA By Jordy Yager Psychological evaluations and criminal background checks were not conducted during the recent hiring of more than 70 officers by the former ...
FBI: Some watch-list hits not reported (6/3/2008) USA Today - USA ... the bureau's Terrorist Screening Center (TSC), said in an interview. Police are asked to contact the center when routine computerized background checks ...
Foreign Care Workers Escape Background Check (6/2/2008) Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom By Laura Clout Tens of thousands of immigrants are working with vulnerable elderly people and children without undergoing full criminal record checks, ...
Report: Concerns raised with outsourcing custodial work in Collier ... (5/29/2008) Marco Eagle - Marco Island,FL,USA The employee passed a background check because he used an alias. • A custodian hired by GCA Services Group who was working at La Coste Elementary School in ...
When Does a Lie Warrant Firing? Financial Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada Berg then admitted to omitting information from her resume and was terminated for resume fraud. Myers was subsequently fired for breach of trust and conduct ...
Job Security Debated for Medicinal Pot Users (5/26/2008) Scripps News- Saramento, CA Stewart Katz, Ross' attorney, said the ruling essentially forces medicinal pot smokers to choose between work and medication.
Accused School Aide Did Previous Crime (5/24/2008) Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA Schools Superintendent Patricia Hamamoto may review procedures and initiate employee background checks a couple of times a year, Goya said.
Former Cheerleader Suing UT for Hiring Coach Who Raped Her in 2004 (5/22/2008) Minaret - Tampa,FL,USA She says the university erred in its background checks and supervision of the cheerleading coach. Heather Wienclawski, a former Spartan cheerleader and ...
Afghan Hijacker Found Working as Cleaner at Heathrow Airport (5/16/2008) FoxNews.com- He initially was arrested on charges of being in breach of bail over assault charges for allegedly attacking his landlord, and then it emerged that he was one of the Stansted hijackers.
Regents Direct Universities to Undertake Background Checks on New Employees (5/14/2008) Lawrence Journal World - Lawrence,KS,USA By Jonathan Kealing Topeka — The Kansas Board of Regents Wednesday afternoon directed all six state universities to implement background checks of new ...
Study: ‘Lying Common Among Job Seekers’ (5/13/2008) The Local - Sweden About 90 percent of companies polled reported having a specific policy regarding background checks on potential employees, with 70 percent also claiming ...
Refusing a background check can get you nowhere (5/12/2008) MiamiHerald.com - Miami,FL,USA Conducting background checks on job applicants is acceptable, and if they don't give permission they might get rejected. BY MARIE G. McINTYRE Q: I recently ...
Proof of Criminal Reference Checks Required (5/8/2008) Edmonton Sun - Alberta, Canada On Wednesday, Mayes told Sun Media that RL Smith runs background checks on all of its drivers before they come on staff. The driver now under investigation ...
Recruitment: Check to Identify Dishonest Applicants (5/6/2008) PersonnelToday.com - UK This reinforces the need for thorough background checks - particularly for positions of trust. Eight in 10 employers (79.1%) were found to conduct background ...
More People Lie on Resumes to Land Jobs (5/6/2008) Daily Sundial Exaggerating one's experience by changing an old job title on a resume into a more sophisticated one can seem harmless, but it is considered resume fraud.
BBB Warns Of Employment Ad For Cleaning Company (4/29/2008) Dallas- CBS 11 TV- A BBB spokesperson said the company may be misleading prospective employees, and she warns against companies that charge for a background check.
One in three meth users high on the job: study 5/1/2008 perthnow- Perth, Austrailia ONE in three employed Australians who take methamphetamine admit going to work high on the effects of the dangerous stimulant.
Thousands of Employee Background Checks by Security Police 4/29/2008 YLE News - Helsinki,Uusimaa,Finland Last year, Finland's Security Police carried out background checks of over 8000 job applicants for employers, more than ever before. ...
Herba-Lie or Herbalife, asks Fraud Discovery Institute's Barry Minkow Eworldwire (press release) - Succasunna,NJ,USA SAN DIEGO/EWORLDWIRE/April 25, 2008 --- Moments after Herbalife President Gregory Probert admitted he lied multiple times in his resume, Fraud Discovery ...
Background-Checks Settlement Would Divvy Up $20.7 Million (4/23/2008) The Virginian-Pilot - Norfolk,VA,USA By Philip Walzer A complaint about improper background checks at a Newport News call center has triggered a settlement exceeding $20 million with the ...
Liar, Liar, Résumé on Fire (4/21/2008) Globe and Mail - Canada In the past, personality tests have focused on identifying positive traits rather than screening out potential deviants. Now that the US economy is tanking, ...
Higher Education Officials Seek Tighter Campus Security 4/17/2008 Lawrence Journal World - Lawrence,KS,USA Several board members also were bothered by the fact that the universities had a wide range of policies on when to conduct criminal background checks of new ...
Button show leaves Reno over background checks 4/16/2008 KTNV Las Vegas - Las Vegas,NV,USA - ... Sparks because the show promoter said she won't force her vendors to be fingerprinted and submit to an extensive and costly criminal background check. ...
Don't Let a Background Check Knock Out Your Canidacy (4/15/2008) Wall Street Journal - USA - Forget about Big Brother. Your next prospective employer is likely to take an uncomfortably close-up look at you.
Reversal of Court Rule Applauded (4/12/2008) Tulsa World - Tulsa,OK,USA The court's decision to re scind the rule also will make it easier for the Better Business Bureau to do background checks on businesses, said Rick Brinkley, ...
People Hampered by Criminal Records Looking to Minn. Supreme Court 4/10/2008 Minneapolis Public Radio - The Minnesota Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments next month on an issue that affects anyone who's been arrested or convicted of a crime.
Chess Scam Hits Del. Schools 4/9/2008 The News Journal - Wilmington,DE,USA ... pay for criminal background checks. Brader leaders plan to implement a stricter screening process for requests from outside organizations, Lapham said. ...
Plaintiff Wins Round in Transgender Case 4/8/2008 Houston Chronicle - United States - River Oaks Imaging said in legal papers that it is just following its policy of refusing to hire people whose background checks reveal they misrepresented ...
Violence in the Workplace April,2008 QSR Magazine- Advice from Greenberg Traurig attorney Tom Wozniak: Knowing how to reduce the chance of violence in your store could protect you from potential liability.
Churches 'foolish' to ignore background checks 4/3/2008 Raleigh Biblical Recorder - Raleigh,NC,USA By Norman Jameson Roger Self, an investigator who has solved 5000 cases, including church embezzlements, recommends background checks on everyone. ...
Pre-Screened Border Crosser Busted for Smuggling Pot 4/2/2008 Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA Participants undergo a background screening and are then issued a card with an embedded radio transponder. The drivers can wave the card at a receiver, ...
A look at Little League background checks after local man faces child porn charges 3/31/08 WHAS 11.com (subscription) - Louisville,KY,USA But Underwood’s arrest is raising concerns with parents about what kind of background checks are in place for the people who deal with children every day. ...
Agency for Abused Children Skips Crime Checks on Workers, City Controller Says (3/26/08) New York Daily News- BY KATHLEEN LUCADAMO A Brooklyn nonprofit paid by the city to help abused children didn't do criminal background checks on workers and couldn't prove ...
Checking Your Credit Before Employers Do (3/20/08) Forbes - NY,USA The right time to bring up debt is when a prospective employer says they're doing background checks. Ask what that includes. If a credit report is part of ...
Employee Background Checks Could Be Impeded (3/18/08) The Journal Record- Oklahoma New Oklahoma rules require removal of personal information such as Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and other data from court filings.
DCFS Checks Raise Questions (3/16/08) Chicago Tribune Though similar offenses would raise a red flag in criminal background checks, his specific crimes are not on the list the state has cobbled together over ...
Food Network Chef Fired After Resume Fraud (3/14/08)
USA Today- After rising to culinary stardom preparing impossible meals on his Food Network series, Robert Irvine has met an obstacle his kitchen prowess couldn't overcome — an embellished resume.Convicted sex offender arrested for not registering (3/12/08) KSWO - Lawton,OK,USA Lawton Police say they've caught a convicted sex offender living just one block from Lincoln Elementary School. On top of that, 43-year-old Patrick ...
Human Rights Commission Concerned Background Checks May Go Too Far (3/12/08) CBC Toronto - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
The background checks are more thorough than regular criminal record checks and can sometimes reveal a person's mental history. For example, incidents of ...Facebook a Risky Tool for Background Checks, Lawyers Warn (3/11/08) FinancialWeek (subscription) - New York,NY,USA
Employers’ growing use of social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace to scrutinize job applicants could lead to charges of employment discrimination and litigation, experts warn.Hiring Practices Key Focus in the Wake of Scandals (3/3/08) Investment News
"We're seeing more [pre-employment psychological screening] among executives and mid-level managers where people have wide responsibility for large teams," ...Remarks by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff at Roundtable With Bloggers (3/3/2008) Department of Homeland Security
One is, and the most urgent, is to deal with the background check problem. It just takes way too long for the Bureau to complete background checks for a ...HR Pushes Alternative to E-Verify (2/29/08) Human Resource Executive Online
Employers would have the option of using biometric screening, says Aitken. Employment contractors would "capture" biometric data, such as thumbprints and ...County Extends Background Checks (2/20/08) Contra- Costa Times
Thirteen of the agencies surveyed said they conduct five-year background checks, while another five agencies said they limit their reviews to three years. ...Women’s Tennis Orders Background Checks for Parents, Agents, Coaches (2/19/08) Boston Herald
WTA Tour players’ parents, agents, coaches and other entourage members must agree to allow criminal background checks if they want full access at...How Safe Are Students (2/18/08) Star-Telegram
Background checks: If the college contracts with a security services company, ask if the firm can engage in comprehensive background screening for ...No Criminal Checks on Camp Counselors (2/12/08) Charlotte News Channel 14
The state of North Carolina does not require criminal background checks on summer camp employees. There are ways to make sure camps are safe though...Check Cleaners To Avoid Being Cleaned Out (2/10/08) Omaha News Channel 6
Instant background checks may not protect you. For Jacque Line, time at home with son Donovan is precious and busy. So Jacque's mom offered to hire someone...
