Excerpted from Lexology By Squire Patton Boggs On April 30, 2019, we reported that the California State Senate had taken steps toward enacting the CROWN Act (Creating a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair) to prohibit discrimination on...
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Excerpted from Pacific Standard By Kelley Czajka The program is the first in the country to introduce drug testing as an eligibility requirement. Beginning this week, West Virginia residents will be eligible for free community college tuition for...
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Excerpted from Gainesville Times By Joshua Silavent When former Gov. Nathan Deal signed a law in May 2018 to require background checks for caregivers, it was met with a no-brainer kind of reaction. The law, which will take effect this October...
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Excerpted from The Ada News By Eric Swanson A new law requiring an additional background check for people who want to become advocates is a major step forward for the 22nd Judicial District’s Court Appointed Advocates program, the...
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Excerpted from JDSUPRA By Husch Blackwell LLP Consistent with the cliché that “everything’s bigger in Texas,” the Texas legislature has introduced not one, but two separate bills relating to the privacy of personal information. Although still in...
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Excerpted from SJ-R By Peter Hancock The Illinois House on Friday rejected a bill that would have blocked public colleges and universities from asking about a prospective student’s criminal history as part of the application. The so-called...
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Excerpted by NYTimes by Michael Gold The bill passed by the New York City Council was the latest in a series of steps to ease cannabis restrictions as efforts to legalize marijuana have stalled. Most employers in New York City would no longer be...
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Compliance is the name of the game in today’s pre-employment background screening process. Kansas and North Carolina’s recent enactment of laws last week governing the use of criminal history in background screening for state government...
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Excerpted from gloucestertimes.com story by Christian M. Wade Workers at summer camps, preschools and day care centers that get federal grants may soon need to be fingerprinted and subjected to national criminal background checks. A plan filed by...
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