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Complying with laws and regulations when using VICTIG Background Checks In the current business climate, finding workers is probably one of your top challenges. At the same time, finding and hiring an unsuitable worker can be worse than no worker. Employers must assess the nature of the job, and its degree of risk to third […]

VICTIG’s QuickApp is an application that allows your applicants to enter all their information and complete the required compliance procedures for the reports you have chosen to request on them. There are several reasons you might consider this process. Compliance As you are aware, before ordering information from VICTIG, you must provide disclosure to the […]

We have written in the past about some county turnaround times that have been unusually long due to Covid court access restrictions and some jurisdictions (particularly in California and Michigan) restricting access to date of birth—which absent a social security number is used as a secondary identifier. Regarding turnaround times, our internal team was asked […]

While the situation has improved over the last couple of months, we are still finding that court records in some counties have been slower to return than normal. There are a couple of reasons.  The first of course is COVID and the shutting down of physical access. That is a temporary situation that has been improving.  […]

In a previous article, we addressed the Disclosure and Authorization. In particular, the requirement to provide disclosure and obtain authorization and to pay particular attention to keeping them simple, without extraneous language. And yet, criminal records are public records. The accusation, trial, and sentencing are public records. There is a move to suppress identifiers on […]

We are doing a four-part series on where employers get into trouble when screening workers. It’s four areas you should manage.   Permissible Purpose Your Disclosure and Authorization before obtaining reports Your Pre/Post Adverse Action notices Job Relatedness and Business Necessity The first three articles discussed Permissible Purpose, Disclosure and Authorization, and Pre/Post Adverse Action. […]

Where do I need to be careful? Pre/Post Adverse Action In past articles, we discussed Permissible Purpose and the Disclosure and Authorization. This article assumes you have a permissible purpose, have obtained a compliant Disclosure and Authorization, have ordered and received the information, and said to yourself “uh-oh” after looking at it. If you review […]

Our last article discussed Permissible Purpose. This one addresses your Disclosure and Authorization. Now don’t yawn and stop reading just yet. 100% of you reading this have certified to us that you will provide disclosure and obtain authorization before ordering information from us. That’s not the issue and the reason many companies have paid millions […]

Where Do I Need to Be Careful?  We are going to do a four-part series on where employers get into trouble when screening workers. It’s four areas you should manage. Permissible Purpose Your Disclosure and Authorization before obtaining reports Your Pre and Post Adverse Action Notices Job Relatedness and Business Necessity But first, if you […]

Recently we wrote about Federal Criminal Records. Within that article we said: “If you do not currently order federal criminal records, ensure that you perform reference checks. Given that most federal criminal records tend to be more serious, your applicant may have spent some quality time in a federal facility and there will be gaps […]

I won’t belong to any association that would have me as a member ~ Groucho Marx Like many of you in your line of work, there is an association of companies that do what we do—background screening. Our association is called the Professional Background Screening Association (PBSA), previously known as the National Association of Professional […]

At the risk of being a broken record (for you youngsters, records preceded online music and CDs and when they got a scratch might play the same thing over and over again) we want to address the disclosure and authorization issue. As you know, this is perhaps the most litigious area in the use of […]