In this current economic environment many employers are being bombarded with more prospective job applicants who are vying for fewer jobs, and as a result many people are embellishing job applications and job histories. Seventy three percent of employers actively looking for employees conduct background checks on potential job canidiates as oppossed to fifty five percent using drug tests and forty percent using credit checks to determine the applicant’s character. Yet many are using a combination of all three when hiring final candiates for the job. A great write up with a lot of good facts worth reading.

In a move that many have expected to come for a long time KY has a bill that will allow parochial school boards the right to background check their teachers and staff. Original article

Come to find out Georgia conducts the least amount of criminal background checks in the southeast when it comes to day care teachers and day care owners, the only exception being North Carolina in certain cases.

Most parents think that day care regulation is stricter than it actually is. In 2008 a day care owner who was not to have any contact with kids was caught caring from them.

Military run day care staff must wear different colored smocks, until their background check clearance comes back. Among the most responsible states South Carolina, and Mississippi require full state and federal background checks, sex offender and child abuse records, as well as fingerprints. Tennesee does annual physical and mental evaulations to check ability to care for children.

Found it here

If your going to be volunteering to be helping out in a New Jersey school anytime soon, you better be ready to pay for your own background check according to a new bill going through legislation now. Currently if a school board decides to perform a check on a volunteer the school must foot the bill, however under the new law being proposed the volunteer will have to pay for the background check being conducted. I don’t know it could prevent things like this from happening.

So as much as I don’t like reading or hearing about kids being abused by adults this is one situation that should be handled accordingly by the police.
And your probably wondering what this has to do with background checks right? The thing is that she didn’t need to be certified or screened for a background check to teach in a Texas charter school. And to top it all off she was wanted on a criminal mischief charge, for slashing a woman’s tires last year.

Found the original story here, and another here

What are your thoughts on the matter should she be criminally prosecuted?

A Connecticut state bill would allow state jobs to omit the “Have you ever been convicted of a felony?” question on state job applications but not for the private sector.

If passed into law, Connecticut would join Minnesota, Kansas and New Mexico in restricting state background checks. In Minnesota, private businesses are also restricted until a job offer has been made in asking the question.

Story here

Should this law be made at the national, state, and private levels? Let me know what you think below.