Be Your Own Detective

When having a criminal record Exploring sealed or expunged, you have to wonder, is it truly sealed? Was is a waste of time & money? Criminal records for a long time, were kept only on paper file by law enforcement, courts and departments of corrections, so privacy was much better protected. Today as they have [...]

Are criminal background checks on job applicants or existing employees always a good idea? Is refusing to hire somebody because of a criminal record always what’s best for society? This is a valid argument often brought up, particularly by those who have a criminal record.
Employers do have an obligation to protect their employees, assets and [...]

Not all criminal background checks are created equal. Some might believe simply looking up somebody’s arrest reports at the Sheriff’s Dept accomplishes a “background check.” In reality, this accomplishes little if nothing. What about arrests made by other counties, jurisdictions, or even other states?
The Clerk of the Courts has a much better record of arrests [...]

A routine statewide city employee background check in Colorado will not reveal a sex crime committed in Oklahoma or another state. If Aurora runs a statewide background check, it will only reveal sex crimes committed in Colorado.
Jermaine Vaden did 9 years in Oklahoma for sodomy on 2 children, but had a clean record in Colorado, [...]

Chances are excellent that anybody being considered for hiring or promotion will be subjected to a criminal background check. While the vast majority of the time, the system works as it’s supposed, the system is far from perfect and sometimes law-abiding citizens with squeaky clean records get fired or turned down for jobs. There is [...]

These days if you applied for anything, be it a job, credit, even volunteer work, there’s an excellent chance you were the subject of some kind of background check or another. Not surprisingly, few people are aware of what kind of background information was revealed about them.
Unfortunately most people are unaware they were the victim [...]

There are many different types of criminal record background checks that contain many different types of information, including arrests.
The specific information seeked in a criminal background check often depends entirely on what is of greatest concern and importance to the employer or organization.
A school, childcare facility or nudist resort will absolutely want to make sure [...]

Ex-convicts are finding themselves in kind of a catch-22. While they are supposed to re-enter society, most are unable to get jobs or housing. Many cannot even get a job driving a taxi cab, or menial minimum wage jobs in restaurants or cleaners.
Both Wal-Mart and Home Depot are no longer hiring anybody with a felony [...]

criminal background checks & job seekers – a necessary evil in today’s reality?
The question on a lot of people’s minds, especially job seekers who have a criminal past, are all these criminal background checks necessary? Has this whole employee background check thing gone too far? A rapidly growing number of people who used to have [...]

Almost 50% of job seekers are lieing on their resumes. Something which is unwise today considering the likelyhood of getting caught.
Lots of people are saying “Everybody’s doing it” but something you put on your résumé could haunt you years later.
RadioShack CEO David Edmondson got fired because he lied on his resume (about some college degrees [...]