Tag: FBI criminal records

Ride sharing companies Lyft and Uber discontinued their services in Austin following the defeat of Proposition 1, which would have exempted ridesharing services from carrying out mandatory fingerprint background checks on all of its drivers. Voters rejected the proposal on May 7th, 2016, and shortly after Lyft and Uber pulled their services from inside Austin […]

National Criminal Database: Only the FBI Has One   The idea of having access to a national criminal database is highly popular among companies screening employees, due to the high cost and amount of time it takes. Unfortunately, while there are commercial services that provide what they call a national criminal database, a true national […]

Local school administrators have voiced growing concern over the administrative and monetary consequences of changes made to Pennsylvania’s Child Protective Services law in 2014. The problem is that changes to the law, part of Keep Kids Safe PA, were all related to 24 components of legislation having to with child safety, and as a result, […]

More and more companies are running background checks on applicants and longtime employees. This keeps a lot of people from getting jobs that they aren’t qualified for legally or otherwise. However, it can also keep someone who is qualified from getting a well-deserved job. Incomplete FBI records are reportedly keeping some 600,000 unemployed. The problem […]