Background Checks involving the sex offender registry can also be more complex that it first appears.  In some states a young man over eighteen have consensual sex with his girlfriend, who is, say, seventeen, can suffer the misfortune of having irate parents press charges, which results on his being placed on the sexual offender list.   I [...]

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One of the great sticking points of these recent years is how state and municipal public service agencies fail to conduct decent background checks on their new employees.   Or if they do, the responsible parties fail to read or interpret the background reports correctly and someone who should not be hired finds himself gainfully employed.  [...]

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By now most of us have heard of Jihad Jane.   Jane is a blond haired blue eyed, high school dropout who converted to Islam and allegedly believed her life was best spent assisting fundamentalist terrorists by helping them kill their perceived enemies and otherwise providing material support.    She helped recruit other Westerners of similar proclivities [...]

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As a background checking service, we like to extol the virtues of background checks in weeding out prospective problems in the workplace.   We write often about checking out criminal records, sexual offenses, criminal theft, and other indicators that someone may not be your ideal candidate. But we always add that the background check is as [...]

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