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• A Host of Procedural Errors Lands Sterling in Hot Water

  December 12, 2024 -   Sterling Infosystems, a consumer reporting agency that sells background checks, falsely reported to a prospective employer that a job candidate had a criminal history and an active warrant for her arrest, the candidate alleged in a Nov. 26 lawsuit (Miller v. Sterling Infosystems, Inc.).     Per the complaint, the job candidate was given a conditional offer to work as a restaurant cook for Great Wolf Lodge in Perryville, Maryland. After Great Wolf received the report, it rescinded her job offer and told her she would have to dispute the inaccuracies directly with Sterling, the lawsuit alleged. She did, and Sterling investigated and sent Great Wolf a corrected report, according to the complaint. The job candidate r...

• CRA'S Get Sued For Screening Out Candidates by Criminal Record

  August 28, 2024 - Third-party employee screening companies are finding themselves more in the litigation fray in California for blocking job seekers with criminal re...

• New Michigan Criminal Record Lookup Platform Available to the Public

  August 08, 2024 - Access to Michigan public records, specifically criminal records, is useful tool for looking up someone's criminal past. MichiganCriminalRecord...

• NYC Starts Enforcing Restrictions On AI In Hiring

  July 27, 2024 - New York City’s law requiring employers to audit and notify candidates about the use of automated employment decision tools will be enforced...

• Nine States Change Civil Jurisdiction Thresholds

  June 14, 2024 - When it comes to civil lawsuits, most states use two levels of court: a limited jurisdiction court that manages lower amounts in controversy and a...

• Errors Discovered in New Bexar County Criminal Records Database

  June 09, 2024 - In the first days after its launch, a new publicly searchable criminal records database accidentally showed records that were incorrect or in the p...

• Database Collection of Death Information Not Public Record

  April 22, 2024 - Requests for Individual Records Not Affected A statewide database of dead Ohioans with the names and addresses associated with the causes of de...

• Military Court Records Might Go Public

  April 21, 2024 - A federal judge ruled in March that ProPublica’s lawsuit against the secretary of defense should move forward, as the news organization seeks...

• West Virginia Magistrate Court Records Now Online

  April 09, 2024 - For the first time, Magistrate Court information is now available online in West Virginia.   Chief Justice Tim Armstead made the annou...

• USA Agency Lays Down the Law on Flawed Background Checks

  April 01, 2024 -  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued guidance to consumer reporting companies to address inaccurate background check report...

• LA County Redacted Identifiers from Online Docket

  March 01, 2024 - There's a lot of talk about LA County redacting identifiers from court records. We only need to go back a liitle bit in time to.... th...

• Federal judge rules Virginia’s restricted access to court records violates First Amendment

  January 19, 2022 - A district court judge in Virginia on Friday found Virginia’s  online civil court system violated First Amendment rights of the press an...

• BREAKING NEWS - Missouri governor Parson vetoes bill that would have limited access to public record

  July 10, 2021 - Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Friday vetoed a wide-ranging bill that would have limited public access to certain government records.  ...

• Michigan Supreme Court Ruling On Court Records Could Mean Doom To Background Checks

  July 09, 2021 - Hundreds of thousands of Michiganders who are looking for work could be facing new challenges in their job hunt.   Set to start in Jul...

• Maine Newspapers Challenge Rule Concealing Electronic Court Records

  February 16, 2021 - A cult-like adherence to the notion of “practical obscurity” for electronic court records is dead. Or is it.   In black an...

• Lawsuit filed against The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) for inaccurate criminal record

  February 03, 2021 - The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) has asked a judge in Franklin County to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the cities of Dayton and Columbu...

• Comanche County Courthouse to reopen Feb. 16

  January 31, 2021 - The Comanche County Courthouse will reopen to the public Feb. 16, Central District Commissioner Johnny Owens said Friday.   While offi...

• Orange County, Calif. courts add online portal for easier access to traffic and criminal cases

  January 20, 2021 - Orange County Superior Courtintroduced an online portal for those with traffic infractions and lower-level criminal cases, part of an ongoing effor...