So you know the PhotoFinder application you use on Facebook to tag yourself and friends in pictures? Well Facebook has been using face recognition technology to keep track of you and your friends, no big surprise. Here comes the surprise they also send this information to USA government databases and state police. It will be interesting to see how this pans out in the next 2 – 3 years as Facebook and Face.com continue to compile the 500+ million users of the social network giant. Story found here.

The state of Conneticut has implemented a sex offender registry that allows the general public to look up sex offenders in their community. It came about when it was exposed that certain CT universities weren’t even asking prospective students if they had been ever convicted of a felony or crime. The problem is the students list Gateway Community College as their addresses which is required of sex offenders. Should colleges prevent students who have sex offender violations from attending university? Let me know in the comments.

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It seems as though there are alot of relatives in the Newark Police Department, Essex county prosecutors are looking into matters where police academy graduates who failed background checks were allowed to join the police force anyway. A unit who conducts the background checks recommended not hiring applicants with criminal histories some with felony convictions, although these individuals were still hired probably because of their relation to some of the higher authority officers.

But we’re not done, follow me along on this one so Newark west ward councilman Ronald Rice Jr heads a committee that tackles various police matters held a closed door session where he spoke with people that are familiar with the police graduates and their criminal records. Why closed door ? the witnesses in question were fearful of retaliation.

I encourage everyone to read the entire blog post as I only touched on some of it, and share it with a friend so we can all be a little more aware of who we put our trust in.

A TN principal who had been offered a job to become principal at Mt. Diablo Elementary has decided to withdraw his application. Christopher Nugent has a long list of wrong doings, in 2008 he exposed 5000 students SSN’s online. He’s been charged with DUI, resisting arrest and fighting two officers. The problem lies in the fact that noone of these violations or implication showed up on a traditional background check.

yet did not discover the negative information that was readily available in a simple Internet search.

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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

The government of Riverside County California has decided to do something in that area wouldn’t have expected, Riverside has started charging $1 to access public records online and you still get charged the dollar even if the name or record is not available.

What merchant would charge you to search its Web site to see if it has a particular product in inventory? None.

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