http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com The Background Investigator. Your information resource for the background investigation industry. Dedicated to pre-employment screenings everywhere. Steve Brownstein, Publisher. http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/_images/tbilogo.jpg http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com en Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:54:36 GMT phyllisn@search4crime.com (The Background Investigator) garth@sightdesign.com (The Background Investigator) http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1372 http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1372 If you want to check the recent criminal history of a prospective employee, tenant, prom date for your daughter or so on, there is once again a free online source for information. The Lancaster... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1357 http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1357 Delaware requires the registration of Trade, Business and Fictitious Names for persons, firms or associations engaging in or transacting any business within the state. These registrations are filed... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1358 http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1358 The New Mexico DMV recently contracted with New Mexico Interactive to provide all electronic media requests of driving record histories and vehicle records. Records are available to subscribers who... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1359 http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1359 In late December 2009, two New Castle County Justice of the Peace Court locations closed and consolidated operations into a new facility. Court #15, which was located in Claymont, officially closed.... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1360 http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1360 The government is pushing foreign countries and airlines to deliver personal and criminal information about people planning to fly into the U.S., but the efforts have met with resistance. This... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1361 http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1361 By Lee B. Salz Sales people have always had a laundry list of excuses that keep them from being able to sell today. Yet, is there any excuse more infamous than the price one. "If we just... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1362 http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1362 by Douglas S. Malan It's a difficult economy and you're a job applicant looking for any edge. Better give a long second thought to padding that resume or fudging the truth on an application,... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1363 http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1363 Texas Attorney General investigators arrested a previously convicted sex offender Jeremy Michael Evers of Wisconsin. The defendant was arrested for failing to comply with sex offender registration... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1364 http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1364 By Tony Bradley Online privacy is a constant and growing concern as the evolving landscape of Web sites and services erode the traditional expectations of privacy. A new app from BeenVerified is... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1365 http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1365 Organised criminals are using cloned career histories to deceive recruiters into hiring them for positions that could enable them to commit fraud, according to security experts. A survey conducted... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1366 http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1366 by Douglas S. Malan Kessler International, a corporate investigation firm, indicated in a recent study that more than 25 percent of resumes include false information. Frank E. Rudewicz, a... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1367 http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1367   Kansas county district court records are now even easier to search online. The Kansas Judiciary partnered with Kansas.gov to launch a new option for searching district court records, called... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1368 http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1368 Information appears on-line as soon as it is entered into the case management system. The clerks try to keep the system up-to-date, but some information may not be entered until several days after... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1369 http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1369 It is an urban myth that licensed professionals such as doctors, lawyers or teachers, do not need background checks. Just because a person is in a regulated profession, employers cannot assume that... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1356 http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1356 Employment Screening Resources (ESR) has released its annual top Ten Tends in Screening and Hiring. ESR has identified new trends that are starting to make a difference, as well as old trends that... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1378 http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1378 By Sheree Shatsky As reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 6.3 people are out pounding the pavement for every available job.  In such a competitive market, those with a prior criminal... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1385 http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1385 The Background Investigator announces the 9th Annual Pre-employment Screeners' Conference, November 7th-10th, at the Sheraton Sand Key Hotel in Clearwater, Florida. The opportunity to mix and... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1384 http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1384 Innovative Enterprises, Inc., a strategic partner to the background screening industry and expert provider of court research information products, smart data solutions and ancillary services, today... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1383 http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1383   Twenty-two executives and employees of suppliers to military and law enforcement agencies were arrested on the eve of the 2010 Shooting, Hunting, & Outdoor Trade Show in Las Vegas. The... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1382 http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1382 by Steve Johnson For a few fleeting moments, the arcane world of graphic arts basked in the glare of the mainstream media courtesy of Ikea, that international icon of retail success that first... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1381 http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1381 Former prostitutes should not have to disclose their spent convictions for sex work when applying for jobs, a Scotland committee said. The Equal Opportunities Committee is seeking to overturn the... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1370 http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1370 An opinion issued by the U.S. District Court in Northern District of Illinois in 2003 provides a case study on what an employer and screening firm should NOT do when it comes to employment background... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1379 http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1379 By Steven Brownstein Hey folks, don't let your researcher fool you into thinking court records are not public in Europe. As you can see by the photos on your right, there I am, typing away at a... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1371 http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1371 By Lester Rosen, Attorney at Law Bill Limiting Access To Wisconsin Court Records Advances If a rule limiting the type of records available on the state's online court records Web site was... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1377 http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1377 Innovative Enterprises, Inc., a provider of court research information products, announced the launch of the Innovative Data Solutionsô web portal at... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1376 http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1376 Police forces can keep a record of spent convictions on a single central database without breaking data protection laws, the Court of Appeals has said. Police would have had to delete a million... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1375 http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1375 Is a CPIC check a Criminal Record check? No, CPIC is a system that transmits requests by authorized law enforcement agencies to several data banks primarily for law enforcement purposes. One of... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1374 http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1374 Forging a criminal record check form to try to get a job nearly landed an Oakland man in jail. Calling it a "flagrant attempt" to be untruthful, Crown attorney Lloyd Tancock asked the... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1373 http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1373 by Michael Whittington Barclays and G4S are just two recent victims of bad press coverage broken by undercover journalists. So what can HR do? Background screening at the recruitment stage to help... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1386 http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1386   All criminal records maintained by the (St. Thomas) Clerk's Office are public records. However, the Clerk's Office, Criminal Division, does not provide case information or case dispositions... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1380 http://www.thebackgroundinvestigator.com/current_issue/index.asp?id=1380 The Canadian Police Information Centre or CPIC is a national database administered by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. It contains a range of information useful to law enforcement, including... Mon, 1 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT