Background History Check | Background Check News for 04/25/2009

Tony Cole's Background Check at Center of County Hiring Controversy - Chicago Public Radio

Tony Cole's Background Check at Center of County Hiring Controversy
Chicago Public Radio, IL
A simple background check on a recently fired Cook County employee is now at the center of a political firestorm. The former county employee in question is Tony Cole. He was recently fired for not disclosing prior convictions. .
State Police Completed Cole Background Check In December Progress Illinois
County knew of employee's criminal background 5 months before firing Chicago Daily Herald
Cole's Criminal Past Revealed Last Year MyFox Chicago
CBS2 Chicago - Chicago Tribune
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Kroll Launches Enhanced eSignature Solution to Help Employers . - Trading Markets (press release)

Kroll Launches Enhanced eSignature Solution to Help Employers .
Trading Markets (press release), CA
The technology makes it faster for clients to initiate background check requests, helps to improve turnaround time, and reduces associated screening costs. Since most background screening information sources, like employers and educational institutions .

Columbine Anniversary Sees Push to Close Gun Show 'Loophole' - U.S. News & World Report

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Columbine Anniversary Sees Push to Close Gun Show 'Loophole'
U.S. News & World Report, DC
According to a Lautenberg spokesman, the legislation would define gun shows subject to doing background checks as those where 50 or more firearms are offered or exhibited for sale. That would broaden the reach of the background check law to flea .
Gun Show Loophole Legislation Introduced Brady Center
Lautenberg renews push to shut gun show 'loophole' The Hill
The Gun Show Loophole: It's About Safety Lynchburg News and Advance
UW Badger Herald - KRDO
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Background check on gun sales sparks debate (WXOW 19 La Crosse)
LA CROSSE, Wisconsin (WXOW)---Just a day after the tenth anniversary of the tragedy at Columbine High School, the Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort is traveling 450 miles across the state on what they call, a Journey for Justice...

Proposed Bill Would End Background Checks For Pistol Purchases - WFMY News 2

Proposed Bill Would End Background Checks For Pistol Purchases
WFMY News 2, NC
Under current law, North Carolina sheriff's offices are required to conduct background checks before anyone is allowed to purchase a pistol or crossbow. The proposed bill would remove that step, but still require a national law requiring an instant .
Bill would end local permits for pistol purchases WRAL.com
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Proposed Bill Would End Background Checks For Pistol Purchases (WFMY News 2 Greensboro)
The North Carolina Senate is reviewing a bill to end a local permit requirement before purchasing a pistol or crossbow. YOUR TAKE: Is it a useless step for sheriff's offices or an important, possibly life saving, measure?..

Background Checks Are Mandatory For Proper Illinois Teacher . - Best Syndication

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Background Checks Are Mandatory For Proper Illinois Teacher .
Best Syndication, CA
You have to fill out this entire package and submit it, after submission, if all things check out, you will get your substitute teaching license, this is after a background check is performed and your college degree is looked through to make sure you .
Certified teachers begin receiving overdue bonuses Orlando Sentinel
Report: Education graduates to enter growing job market SIU - Daily Egyptian
Blair Gardner: Learning to teach, online The George Washington University The GW Hatchet
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Kroll Launches Enhanced eSignature Solution to Help Employers Increase Efficiency of Their Background Screening Programs (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Kroll's Background Screening division helps employers conduct employment background checks more efficiently with the use of its enhanced eSignature solution, which can help organizations reduce costs and improve turnaround time for completed background check reports...

Conway bill would require criminal background checks for volunteer . - Visalia Times-Delta

Conway bill would require criminal background checks for volunteer .
Visalia Times-Delta, CA
BY JAKE HENSHAW EUR¢ Sacramento Bureau EUR¢ April 23, 2009 SACRAMENTO EUR” Volunteer school coaches could face criminal background checks if a bill that cleared its first legislative review Wednesday becomes law. "Coaches on school campuses have such a great .

Kroll Launches Enhanced eSignature Solution to Help Employers Increase Efficiency of Their Background Screening Programs (PRWeb)
Kroll's Background Screening division helps employers conduct employment background checks more efficiently with the use of its enhanced eSignature solution, which can help organizations reduce costs and improve turnaround time for completed background check reports. (PRWeb Apr 25, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/04/prweb2358834.htm..

State police, Stroger tell different stories on background check (WGN TV Chicago)
A criminal background check at the heart of a growing controversy surrounding Cook County Board President Todd Stroger was completed long before Stroger has suggested, according to the Illinois State Police. In interviews this week, Stroger said he fired troubled steakhouse busboy-turned-patronage-worker Tony Cole earlier this month for not disclosing a felony conviction on his job application. ...

Stroger's Lame Blame Game (NBC 5 Chicago)
Even if an arrested ex-employee's background check really was lost in the mail, why didn't anyone bother to look for it?..

Cook official: Error delayed knowledge of con's record (SouthtownStar)
C ook County Board President Todd Stroger has said that he didn't know until this month that a busboy he hired to a county patronage job lied about his criminal past on his job application. But a top county official said Thursday that the Stroger administration received an FBI background check on Tony Cole on Nov. 20, which included two criminal convictions that Cole didn't disclose in his ...

COMMUNITY NEWS: NCT Inland, April 24, 2009 (North County Times)
Volunteer patrol needed VALLEY CENTER ---- The Valley Center Sheriff's Senior Volunteer Patrol is seeking volunteers 50 and over. You must have a valid California drivers license, auto insurance and pass a background investigation check. There are no confrontational duties. Call (760) 751-4405...

Lose the anxiety, find a sitter - Chicago Tribune

Lose the anxiety, find a sitter
Chicago Tribune, United States
Always ask for references and always check them out. Thiers recommends going a step further and conducting a statewide or national background check as well. You can use LexisNexis, backgroundchecks.com or just Google "background check" and find another .

School volunteers in Mars Area may need background checks - Pittsburgh Post Gazette

School volunteers in Mars Area may need background checks
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA
By Sandy Trozzo Under a proposed new policy, Mars Area parents who want to help with a classroom party or chaperone a school-day field trip would have to submit to two criminal background checks. Those who volunteer to tutor a student, coach a team or .

Lawmakers pass requirements for Anchor center (The Fort Dodge Messenger)
State lawmakers have passed legislation to require safety standards and background check requirements for a church-run juvenile facility in Fort Dodge. Anchor Character Training Center, 1940 225th St., is a coed home for troubled teens operated by Harvest Baptist Church. Anchor, classified as a children's center, is apparently the only such facility operating in the state of Iowa...

Digital IDs make clearing customs easier - USA Today

Digital IDs make clearing customs easier
USA Today
An agreement Thursday between the Homeland Security Department and the Netherlands allows approved US citizens to speed through customs checks at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. Dutch citizens clearing a Homeland Security background check can do the same .

Schneider: $10 fee for background check smells like a scam - Lansing State Journal

Schneider: $10 fee for background check smells like a scam
Lansing State Journal, MI
The money supposedly was for background checks for a job advertised on Craigslist, an Internet classified-ad site. Lansing police spokesman Lt. Noel Garcia confirmed Wednesday that LPD has opened an investigation into "alleged criminal activity" in the .

Stroger, cops differ on background check (Chicago Tribune)
According to the Illinois State Police, the criminal background check at the heart of a growing controversy surrounding Cook County Board President Todd Stroger was completed and mailed in December -- long before Stroger has suggested...

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