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With a Background Check for Everyone, We Can Protect Our Children
John Walsh of America's Most Wanted appeared on CNN today in connection with a sensationally successful Operation Orange Tree in the State of Florida. While orange trees are the state's main natural resource, children are even more precious. The operation...
NYPD Gave Weapons to Civic Patrol Volunteers with Criminal History - without a Background Check
The following news story could have been an episode right out of The Gangs of New York, were it filmed today ... Except in contemporary New York City, or rather across the bridge in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights, the gang is of a slightly une...
Use a Cell Phone Lookup to Screen a Roommate - It May Save Your Life
Another senseless death of a man too young to die occurred on June 3rd in Federal Way, WA. A 24-year-old was stabbed multiple times and found by the police bleeding and dying outside his apartment building. The ambulance arrived soon after, and the young ...
Not Sure You Can Pass a Background Check? Go Work For NASA!
Would you believe me if I told you that NASA's premier robotic exploration lab is legally barred from conducting background checks on employees? Well, believe it. Whoever even heard of getting a job these days without passing a background check? That goes...
Not Always a Catch-All
Recently, health officials in Los Angeles County were appalled to find out that an ex-cop convicted of rape was hired - not once, but twice - to work in public hospitals. Gariner Beasley was convicted of raping two women "under the color of authority" in ...
Run Background Checks on Scammers Before They Run One on You
In case you didn't know it yet, our economy is in a deep recession. With hundreds of thousands of layoffs around the country, more people are looking for jobs than anyone can remember in recent history. In recent years, job search methods have become incr...
Priests are Not Subject to Background Checks
Contemporary churchgoers have special concerns these days. With the number of disturbing cases of priests molesting children coming to light in recent years, the question is how to maintain the level of mutual trust traditionally enjoyed by preachers and ...
ID Authentication Must Precede Background Checks
A recent incident at a North Carolina Liberty Tax franchise indicates that consumers should use discretion when hiring a paid professional to prepare their tax return. A tax preparer temporarily hired during the busy tax season was arrested after she forg...
Reverse Phone Lookup Would Know If Your Child's Teacher Has Impure Intentions
Okay, my fellow parents, I don't know about you but this one gives me some serious creeps. I am here to preach to you about protecting your children with something called a reverse phone lookup. You must have heard about the teacher named Dustin King from...
Say 'Yes' to a Mandatory Background Check for Childcare Providers
Whenever as a result of someone's negligence or oversight a child gets hurt, I lose my cool. I just can't stand it when innocent children are victimized. Let me tell you, lately I've been freaking out a lot.
Take this news story from North Dakota. A b...
Checking Public Records before Anything Else
If you are a person who needs to know more about any other person you do not know thoroughly yet, then gaining access to different public records is something you definitely should do. Lest say you are a person who has a business and you need to get peopl...
These Background Check Tips Can Prove Incredibly Helpful to You... if You Read Them
It is likely that the below piece will not cover all you want to learn concerning a specific aspect of "Background Check", but it'll make you more informed about "Background Check" in general. Therefore, it doesn't really matter what your query is in rela...
Had I Used Reverse Cell Phone Lookup, I Could Have Saved My Sister
I'll never forget the night my sister was getting ready to go out with that guy. She was excited and was taking extra steps to look her best. I wanted to know who the guy was, and she told me it was someone she'd recently met through common acquaintances....