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Seattle sued over law banning landlords from conducting criminal background checks

Excerpted from a Reason blog by Christina Britschgi In August 2017, Seattle made it illegal for landlords to decline potential tenants because of their criminal history, or even to perform […]

Background screening company defeats FCRA claim

Excerpted from Lexology.com report A district court in Ohio dismissed a plaintiff’s claims under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq., because he could not show […]

Florida laws don’t stop private schools from hiring felons

Excerpted from orlandosentinel.com, by Annie Martin and Leslie Postal Shanqual Marshall-Gunn, banned from teaching in Florida public schools because of a Medicaid fraud conviction, was hired by a private school […]

Drug Screening – what you use is detectable on your fingerprints

Excerpted from The Atlantic story by Rod McCullom A raft of sensitive new fingerprint-analysis techniques is proving to be a potentially powerful, and in some cases worrying, new avenue for […]