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During today’s tough job market, more people are looking into having their criminal records sealed or expunged.
It’s bad enough people are having a hard time finding work as it is, but this only makes it worse for them. Employers are digging deeper into people’s pasts. Even after the courts purged or expunged arrest information, and [...]

Kids who sexually abuse other kids often get little or no attention and go unreported.
Many parents worry about adult sexual predators in their neighborhood, but never give it much thought that other kids might be sexual predators. One mother was completely unaware the 16-yr old babysitter she trusted, was sexually abusing her 3-year old daughter [...]

Computerized records are making criminal records expungment more difficult to accomplish. Criminal records that used to be kept on paper file, have gone digital, and reports show are being sold to the private sector.
An important ethical question often asked is should this be legal? Should the needs of employers to run criminal background checks take [...]

In Daytona Beach, Florida, the victims of crime will now undergo criminal background checks by the Daytona Police Dept.
The reason cited by the DBPD, is to help detectives to better track down any possible associations between the suspect and the victim, and possible motives behind the crimes. The chief of police feels they need [...]

Florida’s Dept of Corrections, the 3rd largest in the US, has been rife with corruption and scandal, undetected for many years. Prison Chief James V Crosby, openly confessed to receiving bribes from a contractor for 2 years. Also charged is Allen Clark.
An investigation revealed widespread criminal activity amongst prison employees and eventually forced Florida Dept. [...]

In the US, a serious criminal record can tarnish a person’s name for life, and cut one out of many opportunities and rights for life that law abiding people enjoy everyday.
The jail / prison time, probation, fines, and other judicial punishments is only part of the punishment. A criminal record itself is a long-term punishment [...]

The Dept of Veterans Affairs came under fire from Congress once again, this time regarding the employment of convicted sex offenders who work with kids! As if the recent theft of personal data of 26 million veterans wasn’t bad enough.
It was discovered that this has been going on undetected for years at Bay Pines VA [...]

Cops could soon use DNA analysis of criminal’s relatives, known as “kinship analysis” to track down criminals, which is raising many ethical and privacy issues.
It’s a fact that about 46% of prisoners and jail inmates have kin who’s also behind bars somewhere. Researchers at Harvard Medical School predict that expanding DNA searches to criminal’s close [...]

What if somebody as a minor was convicted of a misdemeanor in Florida, but has remained clean since, is an honors student and wants to go to medical school? How hard is it to have his criminal record expunged or sealed?
Florida law does allow one to have their criminal records expunged or sealed, but you [...]

Portland OR: A man with an unknown violent past was released or “matrixed” out of jail due to overcrowding, only to be re-arrested for murder 2 days later.
Richard Paul Koehrsen, 45 was hauled in and booked at the Multnomah County Jail on a trespassing charge and public intoxication, and was released the next day, along [...]