Improve your employment screening practices

In-forum has an article about a North Dakota campus security guard named Moe Gibbs who killed a college student:

Gibbs worked as a campus security guard and Barnes County jailer. A less thorough background check came up clean on Gibbs because it did not catch criminal history connected to his previous name.

As with any level of background check, it’s important to establish identity before conducting a criminal records search. We recommend running the candidate’s social security number in a social security trace which will provide you with additional known aliases (akas). Once the candidate’s identity has been verified by the social security trace, then a criminal history search can be conducted using all of the candidate’s known aliases and places of residence. Sometimes a criminal does not conduct a crime in the county of residence; that is why is it worthwhile to suppliment any hand pulled county criminal search with a Nationwide Criminal Database Search. While not every state is included in the database, it can provide you with large amount of information instantly. The Nationwide Criminal Search works best when combined with a county criminal trace.