Background History Check | Background Check News for 03/13/2010



OSU: Background Check Didn't Show Janitor's Criminal Past (The Kentucky Post)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio State University says a background check on a janitor who shot two supervisors didn't reveal a criminal record, even though he had spent five years in prison...

US Supreme Court to hear JPL background check case - Valley Sun

Pasadena Weekly
US Supreme Court to hear JPL background check case
Valley Sun
By Megan O'Neil The US Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear arguments in a case involving employee background checks at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. .
Background checks challenged in courtFederalNewsRadio.com

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OSU: Background Check Didn't Show Janitor's Criminal Past (WCPO Cincinnati)
The background check for the suspect in a deadly shooting did not show he served time in prison...

U.S. Supreme Court to hear JPL background check case (La Cañada Valley Sun)
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear arguments in a case involving employee background checks at Jet Propulsion Laboratory...

Records check on Ohio State shooter is a muddled one - Columbus Dispatch

USA Today
Records check on Ohio State shooter is a muddled one
Columbus Dispatch
Angela Bosworth, Openonline executive vice president, said the background check that her company performed for Ohio State didn't find anything because the .
Background check missed suspected shooter's prison stintCNN
Ohio State shooter left note, tells woman 'sorry'The Associated Press

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Ohio State: Background check on janitor who shot 2 supervisors didn't reveal criminal record (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio State University said Wednesday a background check on a janitor who shot two supervisors before killing himself didn't reveal that he had a criminal record, raising more questions about how his past prison sentence was missed...

Check on Ohio State gunman found no criminal past - The Associated Press

MiamiHerald.com
Check on Ohio State gunman found no criminal past
The Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio EUR” Ohio State University says a background check on a janitor who shot two supervisors didn't reveal a criminal record, even though he had .
Background check missed shooter's criminal pastOSU - The Lantern
OSU wouldn't have hired Nathaniel Brown had check revealed his pastColumbus Dispatch
Former Co-Worker Says OSU Gunman Threatened Him10TV
UPI.com -Toledo On The Move -WFMJ
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Checks on all buyers at gun shows rejected - Minneapolis Star Tribune

Checks on all buyers at gun shows rejected
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Gross misdemeanor; transferring firearm without background check. A person, other than a federally licensed firearms dealer, who transfers a pistol or .
Gun show background check proposal is defeatedMinneapolis Star Tribune (blog)

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JPL Background Check Case Reaches Supreme Court (Slashdot)
Dthief writes "A long-running legal battle between the United States government and a group of 29 scientists and engineers of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, has now reached the US Supreme Court." At issue: mandatory background checks for scientists and engineers working at JPL, which they allege includes snooping into their sexual orientation, as well as their ...

Background check missed suspect's prison stay (CNN)
A background check conducted in 2009 on an Ohio State University employee suspected of opening fire Tuesday on his co-workers turned up no criminal record, even though he apparently served five years in prison...

N.J. al-Qaeda suspect worked at area nuclear sites | Philadelphia Inquirer . - Philadelphia Inquirer

Boston Globe
N.J. al-Qaeda suspect worked at area nuclear sites | Philadelphia Inquirer .
Philadelphia Inquirer
Jenkins said Mobley would have been put through a repeated background check each time he worked on a new job. He said such checks were thorough, .
Al-Qaida suspect had worked at Peach Bottom, TMIYork Daily Record
Terror suspect worked in 6 nuke plantsCherry Hill Courier Post
FBI, nuclear agency investigate terrorism suspectCNN International

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OSU Shooting: Background Check Missed Killer's Criminal Past (The Huffington Post)
What's Your Reaction? An Ohio State custodial worker who shot and killed one of his bosses and wounded another spent time in prison and had a violent work record, but none of that turned up in a background check performed for the university...

Background check missed shooter's criminal past (The Lantern)
An Ohio State custodial worker who shot and killed one of his bosses and wounded another spent time in prison and had a violent work record, but none of that turned up in a background check performed for the university...

Supreme Court Case Tests Limits of Privacy and Background Checks - HR.BLR.com

Supreme Court Case Tests Limits of Privacy and Background Checks
HR.BLR.com
Under the new policy, the employees were required to clear the background check in order to gain admittance to the lab. Caltech took it a step further, .
Court will decide if NASA checks can continueThe Associated Press
High court to rule on federal background probesSan Francisco Chronicle
Informational Privacy on Trial at Supreme CourtPC Magazine
Wired News -Reuters
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Maryville nursing home sued for $13 million after reported sexual abuse - WBIR-TV

Maryville nursing home sued for $13 million after reported sexual abuse
WBIR-TV
This includes a criminal background check, drug screening, abuse registry screening, and Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health .

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Records check on Ohio State shooter is a muddled one (The Columbus Dispatch)
The company that checked the background of the custodian who shot and killed his supervisor at Ohio State before taking his own life said it did check his name in Ohio prison records. Early Tuesday, Nathaniel A. Brown shot and killed Larry Wallington, 48, and wounded Wallington's supervisor, Henry Butler, 60, before killing himself in the OSU maintenance building where the three worked. A ...

OSU would not have hired killer had background check revealed his criminal past (The Columbus Dispatch)
A background check on Nathaniel Brown, who killed his boss Tuesday, did not turn up his prison record, which would have prevented him from being hired at Ohio State...

Last person texted by missing hiker not a suspect - Seattle Times

Last person texted by missing hiker not a suspect
Seattle Times
Undersheriff Dave Cox says officers conducted an extensive background check on the man. The Associated Press A Skamania County sheriff's officer says a .

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Scientists Case on Background Check Reaches High Court - Science Now

Scientists Case on Background Check Reaches High Court
Science Now
. rule requiring all workers at federal facilities to obtain a new mandatory ID for which they needed to subject themselves to a background check. .

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Ex-med student Joseph Mannino hid criminal past to work, study at Lehigh . - Lehighvalleylive.com

Lehighvalleylive.com
Ex-med student Joseph Mannino hid criminal past to work, study at Lehigh .
Lehighvalleylive.com
The hospital fired him in October 2008 when another employee's tip led to an indepth background check that revealed Mannino's manslaughter conviction. .

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