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UK Government Challenges Ruling Finding Criminal Record Disclosure System Unlawful
November 01, 2018 - The government is challenging a court ruling which said forcing people to disclose minor criminal convictions to employers violates human rights laws. The Court of Appeal found the programme may have been have been disproportionate and unnecessary in some cases, taking objection to a rule stating anyone with more than one conviction, no matter how minor, must disclose them to potential employers when applying for certain types of work. One of the claimants involved is a woman named in proceedings as P, who shoplifted a sandwich and a 99p book which she believed was sending her messages while suffering from undiagnosed schizophrenia in 1999. The second conviction came when she failed to answer...
Publicly Available Information and PIPEDA
October 08, 2018 - In an effort to summarize the general principles that have emerged from court decisions and the Commissioner’s findings to date, the OPC issu...
Handwritten documents, Manila folders, carbon paper — welcome to Cook County criminal court
September 28, 2018 - Every workday, attorneys enter criminal courtrooms across Cook County, put away their smartphones and operate in a world that their grandparents wo...
Lap Dancing A Crime In Israel
September 18, 2018 - Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said on Sunday that law enforcement had received a statement from the state attorney’s office saying lap...
Guadalajara Is First To Relax Sex In Public LawS
September 17, 2018 - It’s now less risky to get frisky – in public – in Guadalajara. Mexico’s second-largest city has made it har...
Proposal to decriminalise traffic offences in Kenya to cut case backlog
September 11, 2018 - The high number of traffic cases is disrupting the criminal justice system yet there is little evidence to show that sentences are making roads saf...
U.S. Military in Germany Go to Local Courts for DUI Offenses
September 10, 2018 - Barbecues, village festivals and get-togethers where alcohol is served may be a huge part of summertime fun in Germany, but the consequences of dri...
Germany edges toward Chinese-style rating of citizens
September 07, 2018 - China is experimenting with a dystopian “social credit system” which grades every citizen based on their behavior. The head of an exper...
Germany - What we learned from this year’s crime statistics… and what we didn’t
September 05, 2018 - The national crime statistics published on Tuesday indicated a dramatic drop in crime levels. At the same time, the general public think that Germa...
A Lot of Hype About Nothing
September 04, 2018 - Legislation protecting innocent Ontarians from the release of unproven allegations and mental health records in police background checks will final...
Met police deny looser background checks put people in danger
September 02, 2018 - The Metropolitan police have rejected claims that the force put children and vulnerable adults in danger by reportedly relaxing its vetting system...
Commonwealth Puerto Rico Police Record Search misses Criminal DUI record and conviction.
August 28, 2018 - The Headline: Commonwealth Puerto Rico Police Record Search misses Criminal DUI record and conviction. The Solution: Wh...
Bahamas Police Resume Police Clearance Issuance
August 24, 2018 - Police have resumed criminal record vetting — but the process is now taking 15 days. The Bermuda Police Service shut the Crimi...
Do Criminal Record Requests Breach GDPR?
August 14, 2018 - Criminal record requests could be breaching GDPR, warns charity By Hayley Kirton Employers should treat law change as...
Straightline International FREE Criminal Record Check Price Catalog
July 16, 2018 - Straightline International FREE Criminal Record Check Price Catalog Includes more than 160 different countries http://issuu.com/findcrime/doc...
The Background Investigator Goes To Thailand
May 14, 2018 - Steven Brownstein, Editor of The Background Investigator recently went to Phuket, Thailand to obtain a record that Straightline Interational...
The Background Investigator Goes To Melbourne, Australia
May 07, 2018 - In a continuing series, The Background Investigator, is sends its attorneys (and sometimes Steven Brownstein, himself) to various countries around...
The UAE Suspends Indefinitely The Mandatory Requirement For Certificates Of Good Conduct
May 01, 2018 - The Philippine Consulate General in Dubai (PCBDXB) will continue its consular service of facilitating the application for Manila’s National B...
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