3 Renting Situations Landlords Need to Watch Out For
Let’s look our three unique situations in which landlords are subject to the FCRA, and how these situations can affect a landlord's decision to rent to certain individuals. Landlord's are [...]
Top Secret: How to Use Continuous Monitoring
In the past two decades the world has swiftly changed from looking at scrapbooks and printed pictures that we assemble and put together from the past to watching the life [...]
The Significant Expansion of Exclusion Screening for Health Care Entities under the ACA
Health care entities participating in federal funding programs have been undergoing massive re-evaluations of their screening practices over the past year. If your organization has not taken a close look [...]
Treat Volunteer Screening the Same as Employment Screening
Organizations need to treat volunteering screening the same as employment screening. In this article we will discuss some of the considerations of using background screening for volunteers – specifically making [...]
The Annual Washington DC Report: Today’s Government Agency Perspective on Your Background Screening Program
Many of our clients are operating in an era of increased government regulation, heightened government enforcement activity and aggressive plaintiff’s actions against small and large businesses alike. The overarching impact [...]
“Ban the Box” Movement Adds Two More States
Many employers inquire about criminal convictions on their employment applications by placing a box for the applicants to check if he or she has ever been convicted of a crime. [...]
Sweeping Changes
FTC Fines Consumer Reporting Agency for FCRA Violations On August 8, 2012 the FTC announced it had fined a non-NAPBS accredited consumer reporting agency, $2.6 million dollars for failure to [...]
EEOC Guidance
EEOC ISSUES LONG-AWAITED GUIDANCE ON USE OF ARREST AND CONVICTION RECORDS Use of Criminal Data Not Going Away but Individualized Assessments of Applicants are Favored, Bright Line Tests Can Result [...]