So apparently what happens is that airports are responsible for the control of security badges issued to those with access to secure areas of their airport. Richmond International Airport (RIC) is not issuing a security badge to a TSA (Transportation Security Administration) TSO (Transportation Security Officer) employee.

TSA recently hired a person who at the age of 17 had committed felony robbery, but was not convicted until he was 18 hence he was tried as an adult. TSA is arguing that the crime was committed when the employee was a minor and should not be held against them or in TSA terms a “disqualifying crime”.

However the break down comes I believe in the fact that the employee didn’t disclose the fact they had a felony conviction within the last 10 years which is required of anyone applying for a TSA job. Once it came to light about the employee’s felony history through a Capital Region Airport Commission criminal background check TSA still demanded a security badge be issued to this employee.

From the original story

1) RIC’s security badging policy is a Transportation Security Administration approved security program. This program expressly prohibits issuing security badges to people convicted of any disqualifying crimes.

2) The TSA policy for criminal background checks at time of employment, as dictated by FAR 108.33 (c)(5) leaves holes for felons to slip through. In this policy, those applying for jobs must disclose felony convictions in the past 10 years, however criminal background checks are only conducted if there are specific deficiencies in the applicants employment history. This means someone can easily create a faux job history to cover their felony convictions and be hired by the TSA.

What do you think, should TSA keep pushing the issue to get this employee a badge or should this employee be denied a job and TSA issue an apology? Let me know in the comments.

Sandra

So everybody has a little dubious past, and even more so in college mybackgroundcheck.com conducted a study on 13,859 college students at 125 universities and what so happened to come back was interesting to say the least.

Driving violations topped the charts at a whopping 60 percent, followed by disorderly conduct (9.5 percent), theft (8.8 percent), drug possession (7.4 percent), sexual abuse (5.2 percent), assault (4 percent), fraud (2.7 percent), and child molestation (2.4 percent).

While having a felony conviction does not prevent you from being admitted to college depending on the circumstances of the crime.
Should certain crimes prevent someone from getting a higher education? let me know in the comments.

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Sandra