Safeguard Screening » Uncategorized http://www.safeguardscreening.com Your source for Employment Screening Background Checks Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:44:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Motor Vehicle Record Fees on the rise as State Budgets implode http://www.safeguardscreening.com/2009/motor-vehicle-record-fees-on-the-rise-as-state-budgets-implode/ http://www.safeguardscreening.com/2009/motor-vehicle-record-fees-on-the-rise-as-state-budgets-implode/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:22:41 +0000 Safeguard Screening http://www.safeguardscreening.com/?p=70 Several states have recently raised the fees for accessing motor vehicle driving records, which will impact the budgets of trucking and transportation firms, small and large.   In some cases the state MVR fee hike is significant. Starting September 1st, Florida is raising their fee for a 3 year MVR driving record from $2.15 to $8.00, and from $3.15 to $10.00 for a 7-year driving record .    While these fee hikes may help states with their budgetary crisis in the short-term, there may be sowing the seeds for long term economic problems.   For larger multi-state firms, this fee hikes may force them to adjust hiring policies away from the states with the higher fees.   States may lose out on a job growth in the trucking and transportation industries. 

Recent State Fee Changes

Florida
3-year search: $2.15 – $8.00
7-year search: $315 – $10.00

New Jersey
fee change: $10.00 – $12.00, effective July 6, 2009

Vermont
Fee Change: $13.00 – $14.00, effective July 1, 2009

Ohio
Fee change: $2.00 – $5.00, effective July 1, 2009

Driving Record Searches are an essential part of a pre-employment background check as well as ongoing background checks for active driving employees.  Driving Records provide records of DUI and other motor vehicle offenses that may not show up under a criminal records search.



]]> http://www.safeguardscreening.com/2009/motor-vehicle-record-fees-on-the-rise-as-state-budgets-implode/feed/ 0 Confusion about rapists Background Check http://www.safeguardscreening.com/2009/confusion-about-rapists-background-check/ http://www.safeguardscreening.com/2009/confusion-about-rapists-background-check/#comments Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:11:53 +0000 Safeguard Screening http://www.safeguardscreening.com/?p=44 If you have been following the story in the Los Angeles Times, you would have read about the convicted rapist who was fired by Los Angeles County and then rehired again. 

Beasley was convicted in 1992 of raping two women under color of authority while working as an on-duty Los Angeles police officer.

today the paper came out stating that the Medical Staffing Firm, Mediscan Staffing Services, said the candidate passed their background check which included “a seven-year criminal and sex offender check, fraud/OIG check, license, education and employment screenings, in addition to checks on the national terrorist database.” 

When you think about it, the candidate’s conviction occurred longer than seven years ago, so naturally he would come back with a clean criminal record if he hadn’t been convicted of a crime since 1992.  So why would a company only search back 7 years?  Because that the policy of the FCRA, the fair credit reporting act.   What is so confusing about this situation is that the Beasley doesn’t appear to be a sex offender, and doesn’t appear on any sex offender registries.   Most sexual offenses become sex offender status which is a lifelong designation or least longer than seven years.  Why isn’t beasley a sex offender?  We find it interesting that the conviction occurred while he was working as Los Angeles Police Officer.



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