Michael Klazema

Crossing Guards Will Be Subject to Background Checks

In an effort to keep their kids safe, the Lyndhurst township in New Jersey is creating a new ordinance that would require crossing guards to have backgroun

Dayton Making One Hundred Percent of City Positions Background Check Required

Instead of waiting for changes to state or federal laws, Dayton, Ohio is taking a more blanketed approach to their hiring practices now.  Although they are

backgroundchecks.com upcoming data quality improvements

In a continuing effort to improve data accuracy and further reduce false positive matches in our instant criminal database, backgroundchecks.com will requi

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Exchange Students will not be Protected from Criminal Host Families

The US State Department was at first entertaining the idea of requiring host families to undergo background checks in order to protect students, but they h

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Veterinary clinic Employee with history of drug-related criminal convictions scammed customers to support drug habit_12416

After the suspicious death of his dog, an Akron man decided to look into his vet’s credentials and found that she had none.  After further investigation fr

City Garbage Truck Driver with Criminal History Caught Stealing City Time

At a time when cities across the country are low on funds, they can’t afford to have any employee shirking responsibilities, let alone using city time and

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Once Prison Guards are in, Their Corruption Goes Unchecked

When we think of prisons, we often think of all the corrupt convicts living behind bars.  According to the LA Times though, corruption is also on the rise

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California Aims to Protect Consumers from Offshored PII

The situation Offshoring is running rampant in the United States. For many companies this is a standard and acceptable business practice. Most of the compa

Employee Fraud Becomes an Added Concern for Today’s Small Businesses

As if the slow economy wasn’t already enough for small business to deal with, they now have to keep a closer watch over their employees.  According to the

The Backgrounds of 40,000 Teachers in Kansas are Still Unknown_12328

When you entrust your child into the hands of educators, you probably assume those employees are upstanding citizens without criminal histories.  If your c