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AI and Police Reports Slammed
December 18, 2024 - ACLU Slams AI Police Reports, and Axon in Particular Axon, best known for its Tasers, is trying to sell its relatively new Draft One software to police. A new ACLU report advises police to avoid AI for crafting reports — and an Axon competitor weighs in. The practice of using AI to write police reports has come under attack from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) — and its new paper on the issue could end up influencing competition among suppliers of technology to law enforcement. The report is a fusillade against Axon, which makes body cameras and other products, along with software for AI-powered police reports. Axon has faced controversy before about its products. In 2022...
Why Would India Records researches Offer This Search To USA CRA's?
December 09, 2024 - The "PGR Rewards Program" (Procuraduría General de la República) was an initiative of the Mexican government to offer rewar...
CIVIL LAWSUIT TERMS #1
December 05, 2024 - In this set of articles we begin with the "what is in a civil search - for pre-employment screeners In civil cases, the t...
Editorial - Flaws in Using Maps to Choose Court Locations by Steven Brownstein
December 02, 2024 - When determining the correct judicial authority for a particular location, it's essential that we rely on detailed and authoritative research s...
Unusual Court Case Dispositions from Around the Globe
October 24, 2024 - In Alberta, "Cleared of Proceedings" in the context of a criminal case disposition typically means that the legal process or prosecution...
1st African Background Screening Conference: A Visionary Gathering of Professionals
October 21, 2024 - The 1st African Background Screening event is a groundbreaking gathering of professionals, industry leaders, and innovators who are co...
Can Google Search Strings Ease Adverse Media Screening
September 05, 2024 - Adverse media is becoming increasingly important to compliance processes. With so much to check, Sigma Ratings has posed the question of&...
False Positives in Background Screening Criminal Records Searches
August 28, 2024 - A false positive in a criminal record background check occurs when the check incorrectly identifies someone as having a criminal record when...
Things a CRA Must Look Out For
August 17, 2024 - Stories continue from lawsuits, in particular about background screening companies generating criminal background check reports from data that ofte...
A Background Search Story You Need To Read
August 12, 2024 - This is a story, especially for the newcomer, hard to imagine, but in the beginning.... It was the Monday before Thanksgiving, 1996. I was visiting...
EXCLUSIVE : Fincen Downloadable Experience
August 04, 2024 - Download FinCEN Files Transaction Data To extract as much information as possible from the files, dozens of reporters collaborated to manually...
TUTORIAL - Classifications of Canada's Criminal Offenses
July 28, 2024 - In Canada, criminal offenses are categorized into three main types: summary offenses, indictable offenses, and hybrid offenses. Here's an overv...
The Background Investigator Goes To Moscow
July 15, 2024 - In a continuing series, The Background Investigator, sends its attorneys to various countries around the world to explore the justice systems...
INDIA - Kerala High Court protects the right to access court records
July 07, 2024 - A series of petitions before the Kerala HC sought the removal of court orders from the Indian Kanoon website by claiming the ‘right to be for...
What does a Stayed Disposition mean in Ontario, Canada Courts?
June 11, 2024 - stayed Charges are “stayed” when a judge or a Crown decides that it would be bad for the justice system for the case to continue....
U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS COURT SEARCHES BACK ONLINE
June 09, 2024 - It's been over a week; it seemed to be forever, but St Thomas and the rset of the US Virgin Islands have gotten their act together and brought...
U.S. Virgin Islands Superior Court Record Portal is Offline!
May 22, 2024 - U.S. Virgin Islands Superior Court Record Portal is Offline! Breaking News! It's ba...
The Risk Of Hiring Fraudulent Employees Just Got Bigger
May 13, 2024 - These are strange times. Ominous signs of a recession looming over what is decidedly a candidate’s jobs market, with more jobs to fill than p...
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