Should you conduct a statewide criminal conviction search or just do a county criminal search when performing background investigations on applicants, employees or volunteers? The answer is……..IT DEPENDS. And, if you are using a consumer reporting agency to deliver your background investigations wouldn’t you want one that can take the time to select those states […]

Expunged criminal records and their applicability in making a hiring decision have come up in a recent lawsuit filed by two individuals against the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). California Labor Code states that employers cannot use convictions that have been judicially dismissed or ordered sealed as a factor in determining whether to hire […]

Are you missing criminal convictions when you perform a background investigation? Criminal convictions are located in primarily two separate places. A criminal conviction in one location WILL NOT be discoverable in the other location. Those locations are county criminal courts and federal district courts. Local criminal convictions are violations of local laws. Federal district court […]

Ban The Box is definitely not accomplishing its goal. This is a fact borne out by recent studies. Legislators are always trying to regulate human behavior. And it always never works. They increase taxes. People adjust their lives accordingly so they either minimize or don’t pay the taxes. The unintended consequence is taxes go down. […]

How often have you read headlines only to find it is unsupported by contents of the article? A recently released study attempts to compare work history of individuals with criminal convictions in their background to individuals with no criminal convictions in their background. The study comes to some startling conclusions. It also identifies and supports […]