Background History Check | Background Check News for 12/24/2009



Santa fired after sex convictions revealed (The Oshkosh Northwestern)
A 33-year-old Sheboygan man working as a Santa Claus at Memorial Mall was fired Tuesday after his superiors learned of prior convictions including two misdemeanor charges tied to sex with minors in the 1990s that had not turned up on a background check...

Morning Report: Prosecutor at Top of Obama's List (Voice of San Diego)
She's made the rounds in Washington D.C. Now, our sources tell us, a background check appears to be all that stands between veteran federal prosecutor Laura Duffy and a nomination by the Obama Administration to be San Diego's next U.S. attorney...

Black Diamond terminates city administrator following background check | Read . - Seattle Post Intelligencer

Black Diamond terminates city administrator following background check | Read .
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Mr. Smith breached the conditions of his employment, including failure to cooperate with the background check; misrepresentation; insubordination; .

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Can anybody get fingerprinted by Seattle police? - Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)

Can anybody get fingerprinted by Seattle police?
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Q: I need to get fingerprinted as part of a background check for my new job. Does the Seattle Police Department provide a fingerprinting service? .

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Now You Can Conduct Your Own Background Check with Acxiom's New I-Check (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.----If you are applying for jobs, rental property, volunteer organizations or seeking other placements, now you can get your own background check from Acxiom I-Check, a low-cost, confidential and in-depth background screening service offered by Acxiom Corporation ...

Girls Just Wanna Have Guns - Outdoor Life Magazine (blog)

Christian Science Monitor
Girls Just Wanna Have Guns
Outdoor Life Magazine (blog)
As further proof the gun sales boon is not wavering, data released this week by the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) reported .
Murder rate declined while gun sales boomed: An 'inconvenient truth'Examiner.com
More guns equal more crime? Not in 2009, FBI crime report shows.Christian Science Monitor
Gun Sales Surge, Violent Crime DropsPajamas Media (blog)
Hot Air (blog)
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County mulls caregiver background checks (The American Canyon Eagle)
Privately-hired caregivers in Napa County may have to undergo background checks under a proposed countywide ordinance. The goal, Napa County District Attorney Gary Lieberstein told the American Canyon City Council earlier this month, is preventing elder abuse...

Background checks still up in air in Mentor (The News-Herald)
The jury is still out on whether Mentor City Council will begin requiring background checks of its board and commission members...

Police: Homeless are 'steady presence' (The Sentinel)
To be admitted to area shelters, homeless people have to swing by the Carlisle Police Department for a background check...

Background checks for Plainfield Twp. - WOOD-TV

WOOD-TV
Background checks for Plainfield Twp.
WOOD-TV
(WOOD) - All future Plainfield Township employees will undergo a background check, the board decided at a Monday night meeting. The discussion came after .

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Background checks for Plainfield Twp. (WOOD TV 8 Grand Rapids)
All future Plainfield Township employees will undergo a background check, the board decided at a Monday night meeting...

Sheboygan Mall Santa Fired for Criminal Background - WBAY

Sheboygan Mall Santa Fired for Criminal Background
WBAY
Supervisors say they did a background check when he was hired, but the convictions did not pop up because Specht legally changed his last name in October .
'Santa' fired after sex convictions revealedSheboygan Press
Local Mall Fires Santa For Past Sex ConvictionsWISN.com

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Herschel Space Telescope uncovers sources of cosmic infrared background (Science Daily)
A weak cosmic infrared radiation field that reaches Earth from all directions contains not yet deciphered messages about the evolution of galaxies. Using first observations with the PACS Instrument on board ESAs Herschel Space Telescope, scientists have for the first time resolved more than half of this radiation into its constituting sources. Observations with Herschel open the road towards ...

Russian Passes Background Check, and Vote Looms on His Bid for Nets - New York Times

Russian Passes Background Check, and Vote Looms on His Bid for Nets
New York Times
Mikhail D. Prokhorov has survived the NBA's background examination, helping the billionaire Russian oligarch take another step toward .

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Background checks still up in air in Mentor - News-Herald.com

Background checks still up in air in Mentor
News-Herald.com
The jury is still out on whether Mentor City Council will begin requiring background checks of its board and commission members. .

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How iPhone apps can ruin your Christmas - CNET News

How iPhone apps can ruin your Christmas
CNET News
The first is called the Background Check App. Not only is it wondrously free, but it also strikes a huge and lasting blow for personal freedom. .

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Background Checks For All With BeenVerifieds iPhone App (TechCrunch)
Back in September, we wrote about a new iPhone app that would allow you to run a background check on a new lover. It's mildly creepy, but also kind of interesting. Unfortunately, that app, DateCheck, also charged an arm and a leg to run the checks. A new one gives you some background checking ability for free. The aptly named Background Check App does exactly what it says: Using data from the ...

Background Checks For All With BeenVerified's iPhone App - Washington Post

Background Checks For All With BeenVerified's iPhone App
Washington Post
Back in September, we wrote about a new iPhone app that would allow you to run a background check on a new lover. It's mildly creepy, but also kind of .
Background Check app brings up all of that old stuff (mega-privacy invasion .9 to 5 Mac (blog)
Background Check App for iPhone does exactly what you think it doesIntoMobile (blog)

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You Wanna Background Check Me? Well, Be Careful Where You Look . - Corporate Counsel

You Wanna Background Check Me? Well, Be Careful Where You Look .
Corporate Counsel
Approximately half of those employers reported that they also check applicants' credit histories. For the nominal fee of a comprehensive background check, .

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Sheboygan Mall Santa Fired for Criminal Background (WBAY Green Bay)
A Santa at the Memorial Mall in Sheboygan has been fired after his supervisors learn of his criminal background...



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