Checks find 1,000 felons in nursing homes
Newly required criminal background checks have identified nearly 1,000 convicted felons living in Illinois nursing homes, and state officials expect that number will go up once all the checks are finished.
The state previously had no idea how many ex-cons lived in Illinois’ long-term care facilities or whether these people posed a threat to other residents.

Trucking firms are revved up over costly background checks
The trucking industry, already facing a shortage of drivers who feel burdened by costly mandated criminal background checks, could take another hit when the Department of Homeland Security rolls out a new program requiring drivers to undergo yet another background check.
Drivers going to and from ports would have to undergo a fingerprint-based background screening and pay $149 for an I.D. card under a new security proposal by homeland security.

NewsNet5.com - News - Background Checks Will Be Required For Ice Cream Vendors
CLEVELAND — Cleveland City Council Thursday passed legislation that will require background checks for all licensed ice cream truck drivers.
The background checks will look for sexual and violent crimes that would prohibit a license from being issued to an individual. Read more…

Stricter Background Checks For School Employees Sought
A new proposal would require federal criminal-background checks for prospective public and private school employees in Pennsylvania.

Texas crime busting unit uses Corpora technology to store images and fingerprints
A small Milton Keynes based software company called Tokairo, a division of the Corpora Group, is helping fight crime in America’s largest state. Texas crime busting unit uses technology from Corpora Plc to store 18 million images and input up to 6,000 new fingerprints of crime suspects every day.Tokairo is providing its unique document management technology to the Texas Department of Public Safety to enable the USA’s largest state to manage the huge volumes of crime related documents it collects. Not only is Tokairo helping Texas fight crime, its software is reducing the cost of doing so by $50,000 a year.

Lawmakers consider criminal background checks for college students
RALEIGH — Your child may have to pass a criminal background check to enter state universities. Lawmakers are considering a bill that would do just that.In 2004, two students were killed at UNC-Wilmington. One suspect lied on his application about his criminal past, now lawmakers want to make sure that doesn’t happen again.

Flight Schools Fight Background Checks
A bill that’s been lurking under the legislative radar in New York for almost four years has been revived by the state Senate and will hurt the flight training industry there, according to local schools and pilot organizations. In 2002, New York, like many other states, thought it prudent to step into federal jurisdiction by trying to institute background checks on student pilots. As protests grew and federal regulations came into play, most states simply dropped their initiatives. However, New York’s background-check law has remained on the legislative agenda and was revived last week by a vote in the Senate.