NEWS, EVENTS, AND BLOGS
December 2, 2020
Ohio residents have been “falsely lulled into feeling secure with Ohio’s and the federal background check system,” said Columbus City Attorney...
August 22, 2017
A recent article in the New York Times on O.J. Simpson’s parole hearing highlights the ongoing challenge of the FBI database...
August 12, 2017
An recent article in the New York Times on O.J. Simpson’s parole hearing highlights the ongoing challenge of the FBI database...
April 14, 2017
Earlier this month, the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities released a flawed report on background screenings that relied upon data findings...
April 5, 2017
Recently, Lyft CEO John Zimmer was interviewed for NPR’s podcast, How I Built This. Zimmer was asked about his company’s criminal...
December 6, 2016
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics surveyed state criminal history record repositories and found that in 2014, 43 states...
June 16, 2016
Eric Holder, former U.S. Attorney General under President Obama, wrote three letters in June 2016 to local and state officials urging...
May 5, 2016
An important lesson was re-learned in a recent settlement between plaintiffs alleging discrimination over criminal background checks and the U.S. Census...
April 19, 2016
In the wake of some recent stories toting the perceived benefits of fingerprint checks for workers, CDIA wants to remind readers...