An increasing number of criminal records found among employees is attributed to employers conducting more thorough investigations on the candidates they hire, claims a recent report by Staff Patrol, a provider of employment background screening services for both commercial clients and individuals. Companies are also scrutinizing a larger percentage of their staff, including contractors and temporary employees. Read more…

I find it interesting that county workers, who generally work in the public, are not currently screened for criminal records. Read more…

I have written several articles in the past on how to conduct your own free background checks. I wanted to make this article as comprehensive as possible on how to conduct your own criminal check for free. If there are things on your record that you would like to check on, this is the proper way to do it. First get yourself organized. Start by getting all of your previous addresses together so it will be easier to look up information.

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Yes, criminal records are public records. The reason I bring this up is because over the weekend I was reading a blog called Ask Bob Rankin. In it he received a question about background checks. Read more…

The following is an article written by Ted Moss of Crimcheck.com

• Did you know?
• 50 Billion Dollars is the annual cost of workplace violence
• 50 Billion Dollars is lost because of workplace drug use
• 100 Billion Dollars is what American businesses loose due to employee theft
• Identity theft for employment purposes is on the rise
• Employment screening is a critical component to combating these issues

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Quarter Of Juvenile Center’s Workers Have Criminal Records
INDIANAPOLIS — Recent background checks revealed that more than 25 percent of Marion County’s juvenile detention center employees have criminal records, the center’s interim superintendent said Friday.
The checks, initiated two weeks ago, showed that 24 of the center’s 90 workers have criminal histories. The finding comes less than two months after nine former employees were charged with having sex with female detainees at the center between 2000 and 2005.