Alabama offering Statewide Criminal Background Checks
The State of Alabama is now offering employers Alabama statewide criminal record search for $25.00. These searches can be ordered directly from their Alabama website or, if you use a third party background check provider, like Corra Background Checks, you allow them to access the criminal record information on your behalf. ABC system reports include felony [...]
Nova Scotia Nurses union unhappy with criminal background check plan
The College of Registered Nurses of Nova Scotia will start requiring all prospective Nurses to conduct a $30 Canadian Criminal background check. The must pay for the background check themselves. An honor system is currently inplace and all nurses must report any criminal offeneses on their annual renewal. The college executive director thinks that requiring [...]
I’m your ice cream man background check me when I’m passing by
Seems like background checks are on everyone’s minds these days, especially when we consider the potential harm to our children. It doesn’t take much for people to think this way, just a few scandals involving a school bus driver, a teacher, or even an ice cream man. Make sure your business isn’t the one caught in [...]
School Districts Failing to background check bus drivers
Are you children riding the bus to school in Missouri? A Missouri State auditor said that school bus driving companies are not always meeting the requirement for background checks and drug testing for school bus drivers and aides. The bus companies are apparently responsible for coordinating the background checks. Read the full article here: If you [...]
Hot for Teacher – background checks, that is
The Austin American-Statesman wants the results of background checks conducted by the Austin School Board, but the school board and the The Association of Texas Professional Educators doesn’t want to give it to them. The District Attorney apparently ruled that “part of the information was not exempt from the public information laws.” Now the association [...]
Church Accountant steals $200,000 from her own place of worship
In a shocking case in Torrance Superior Court, a church accountant embezzled approximately $200,000 from her employer, Church of the Beach Cities. She plead no contest to one count of embezzlement and was sentenced to two years in prison. She had been attending the church for approximately six years. In addition to her position as office manager, [...]
Why you should run motor vehicle records on your employees
Corra Daily Planet has a great article on the reasons for running a motor vehicle driving record (MVR Search) on your prospective employees and your current employees. The fact is the Motor Vehicle Driving Records can tell you much more than just how your candidate is driving. This search can define behavior patterns and even [...]
Background Checks & College Football : scoring a hit
South Carolina Gamecocks have begun running detailed background checks on all their pending coaches, administrators, and employees in response to recent probation by the NCAA. As we see in the sporting world, when you score a hit on your background checks, you protect your company and organization from a negligent hiring lawsuit and you play zone defense by preventing any negative press [...]
FBI Background Check System overloaded
The FBI is facing a technology crisis with new requests for background checks: The Justice Department’s inspector general concluded that the FBI’s National Name Check Program is working with outdated technology, and that poorly trained personnel and overworked supervisors are falling far behind. The name-check program and its FBI fingerprint database are the largest in [...]
Background Check Results: What to do
David Evans wrote an interesting article about background checks in higher education. As our universities begin to screen more candidates including professorships, its only natural for a scholastic and thoughtful discuss to arise about the merits of the background check procedure. He describes a horror story where a candidate was not selected due to negative information [...]