Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On June 17, 2021, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) – which enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination – filed a lawsuit against a company that fired an employee who refused to be fingerprinted during a background check due to his religious beliefs, according to an…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On August 23, 2019, a man linked to a decades-old cold case murder that occurred in Florida in 1998 after he applied for a job that required him to undergo a fingerprint background check in 2018 was sentenced to life in prison for the crime, according to…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On July 29, 2019, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) – which regulates brokerage firms doing business with the public in the U.S. – announced it had fined Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (CGMI) $1.25 million for failing to conduct timely or adequate background checks on more than 10,000…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn A Florida man was arrested on a charge of first-degree murder after the fingerprints he submitted for a background check while applying for a job linked him to a decades old murder of a woman stabbed and bludgeoned to death in a Delray Beach consignment shop, according…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On November 21, 2017, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) – which regulates brokerage firms doing business in the U.S. – announced it had fined J.P. Morgan Securities, LLC $1.25 million for failing to conduct adequate background checks on approximately 8,600, or 95 percent, of its non-registered associated…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS®) has submitted comments requested by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) regarding the background checks of prospective Transportation Network Company (TNC) drivers under the ‘California Public Service Commission Rulemaking 12-12-011’ (Order Instituting Rulemaking on Regulations Relating to Passenger…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The use of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) database and state criminal history repositories that require fingerprinting “are now a central theme of the regulatory battle” for regulation of drivers for the on-demand ride-hailing service provider Uber, according to a blog on The Huffington Post website.
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) has launched a campaign to pass his bipartisan legislation – Child Protection Improvements and Electronic Life and Safety Security Systems Act of 2015 – that would change the federal law preventing summer camps and other not-for-profit youth organizations from…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The Government Accountability Office (GAO) – the “congressional watchdog” investigating how the federal government spends taxpayer dollars – has released a report on the use of criminal background checks titled ‘Criminal History Records: Additional Actions Could Enhance the Completeness of Records Used For Employment-Related Background Checks (GAO-15-162).’…
A Congressional Briefing entitled ‘The Consequences of Inaccurate Employment Background Checks’ that should feature a report from the National Law Employment Project (NELP) – ‘Wanted: Accurate FBI Background Checks for Employment’ – that examines the accuracy of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) background checks will take place Tuesday, October 1, 2013 at 4:00 PM in…
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