True Cost of Background Checks
All of Us or None v. Hamrick In May 2021, the appellate court in California ruled in All of Us or None v. Hamrick that trial courts in...
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Background Screening
Mar 15, 2021
Criminal Record Questions in the Era of “Ban the Box”: Criminal Record Questions
There is very little consistency in how questions about criminal records are asked on job applications, or what information is requested....
Mar 15, 2021
The Rise of Criminal Background Screening in Rental Housing
The carceral state works with the private sector to carry out the work of social control, extending risk-based logics far beyond prison...
Mar 15, 2021
Survey of State Criminal History Information Systems, 2014
The Bureau of Justice Statistics provides detailed information on how criminal record checks are conducted in the United States and its...
Mar 15, 2021
Report of the National Task Force on the Commercial Sale of Criminal Justice Information
This fascinating (though outdated) report from the National Task Force on the Commercial Sale of Criminal Justice Information examines...
Mar 15, 2021
The next Pandora’s Box of criminal background checks
To what extent do mandatory checks required by government lead to an overall increase in background checks performed by employers? This...
Mar 15, 2021
Do Not (re)enter: The Rise of Criminal Background Tenant Screening as a Violation of the Fair...
More robust and clear guidelines and policies are needed to eliminate discrimination against people with criminal records in housing....
Mar 15, 2021
Broken Records Redux: How Errors by Criminal Background Check Companies Continue to Harm...
Because errors in background checks are common and have life-changing consequences, federal and state elected officials should do more...
Mar 15, 2021
3 Employment Screening Trends to Know Before You Hire in 2019
Employers are continuing to increase their surveillance of potential and current employees. This article on the Society for Human...
Mar 15, 2021
Policing Criminal Justice Data
There is a strong need for oversight and regulation of data compiled and disseminated by the myriad criminal legal systems in the U.S....
Mar 15, 2021
Digital Punishment: Privacy, Stigma, and the Harms of Data-Driven Criminal Justice
The stigma of criminalization takes on new meaning and heightened consequence when criminal records are online, easily accessible to all...
Mar 15, 2021
The Expanding Scope, Use, and Availability of Criminal Records
The production and use of criminal records has increased dramatically in recent years. This article provides a thorough review of the...
Mar 15, 2021
The Eternal Criminal Record
How did criminal records go from decentralized collections of local documents used primarily by police, to nationally integrated...
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