Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The United States Census Bureau needs to improve background checks of workers after hiring individuals with criminal records for federal employment who had direct interactions with the American public during the 2020 Census, according to a report issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce Office of Inspector…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On February 7, 2022, a federal judge ordered the United States Air Force to pay more than $230 million in damages to survivors and families of victims of a shooting at a Texas church in 2017 after failing to submit the gunman’s criminal history to the Federal Bureau…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On January 31, 2022, State Auditor Kathleen McGuiness stated that “Delaware’s 19 school districts and the Department of Education (DOE) could improve their criminal background check processes for people with the opportunity to have personal contact with students,” according to 20 newly issued performance audits. “My audit…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn A review of the background check system used by Baltimore County in Maryland by the County’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found that more than 1,000 County employees had never undergone a background check while other County employees had been charged with crimes that were not…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On December 20, 2019, former United States President Donald J. Trump signed into law the “National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2020” (S. 1790) that included a “Ban the Box” bill called the ‘‘Fair Chance to Compete for Jobs Act of 2019’’ or ‘‘Fair Chance…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn A federal judge has found the United States Air Force mostly responsible for a 2017 mass shooting that killed 26 people at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, because it failed to report the criminal history of the shooter to a background check system operated by the Federal…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Statistics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealed that more than 300,000 illegal firearm sales were blocked by background checks in 2020, the highest number of annual denials ever and almost double the nearly 169,000 denials reported by the FBI in 2019, according to a press release…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn In April of 2021, Retired Army Lieutenant General Russel Honoré, the leader of a task force reviewing security failures during the insurrection at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, “said he continues to support recommendations for conducting background checks on everyone working at the Capitol”…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) – America’s largest government agency – “is examining a scalable means of implementing social media screening in conjunction with background investigations” in an effort to prevent extremist behavior in military ranks, according to a training document from the Office of the…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On August 20, 2020, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (Illinois-08) and Congresswoman Katie Porter (California-45) sent a letter to John M. Barger of the United States Postal Service (USPS) Board of Governors requesting information about what they called the “highly irregular” selection of Louis DeJoy for the position of…
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