Excerpted from The Oakland Press By Mark Cavitt Oakland County has “banned the box.” On June 12, the county board of commissioners approved a resolution, by party line vote, that prohibits the county from inquiring about...
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Excerptd from FOXSanAntonio By Jordan Bontke As the City of Leander is preparing for demonstrators for an upcoming drag queen story time event, the pastor of the hosting church said the city needs a progressive worship space. On Saturday, Ryan...
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Excerpted from The Daytona Beach News-Journal by Eileen Zaffiro-Kean Four months before First Step Shelter is slated to open, decisions about who can stay there and what the rules will be once they’re welcomed inside as residents are still a work...
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Excerpted from NBC News By Charlotte West Christopher Poulos was offered the chance to work for the Obama administration during his third year of law school in 2015. Although he had previously been convicted of a federal felony, he was eventually...
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Excerpted from CBS News By Kris Van Cleave The airline pilot accused in three Kentucky murders served in the U.S. Army and Army Reserve for 20 years and had been found guilty of assault on a child under the age of 16 in 2016, CBS News has...
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Excerpted from The Daily Caller post by Evie Fordham An alleged Somali war criminal made it through Uber and Lyft’s background check systems, becoming a ride-share driver in the U.S. Yusuf Abdi Ali, a veteran of the Somali military, told...
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Excerpted from Fox 46 By Matthew Grant A FOX 46 investigation has uncovered a reported flaw in the Census Bureau’s background check system. This comes after the discovery that a registered child sex offender was given a job with the...
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Excerpted from The Oklahoman By Paula Burkes Can you tell us more about the increasing popularity to include social media in background checks? Full disclosure: Social media was in its infancy when I was interviewing for my first job. MySpace was...
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Excerpted from azcentral.com By Lauren Castle In Arizona, child-care centers and many day camps must do criminal background checks on staff. But there is no such requirement for overnight camps. Arizona is one of 18 states that do not require...
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Excerpted from SHRM Blog By Christina Melton Crain,Esq. There is no doubt that the success of a company is determined by those it employs; thereby making acquisition of the appropriate and necessary talent a key priority for any business...
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Excerpted from Law.com By Greg Land Two pending class action lawsuits accusing Seattle-based coffee chain Starbucks of violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act by using flawed background reports to reject job applicants are being combined in the...
Read More Excerpted from The Breeze By Mitchell Sasser JMU’s chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, a national grassroots organization that recognizes the threat posed by the war on drugs, hosted “Ban the Box in Virginia Higher Education” April 16...
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