Penn State University recently changed its policies regarding hits hiring protocol. Now the University is requiring job applicants and third-party employees to undergo a criminal background check. The sex abuse scandal and cover up put the University under the microscope and all over the news. Performing a criminal background check with a 50-State sex offender check is a policy that every University and business should incorporate in their employment screening platform. Utilizing a professional third party background screening company like CriminalBackgroundRecords.com is the best way to ensure you are getting the most up to date accurate and complete criminal background check available in the USA. To read more about Penn State and their new criminal background check policy read recent press release found at: http://www.criminalbackgroundrecords.com/news/2012-09-12-College-Football-Criminal-Background-Checks.html

The criminal record retrieval industry is not a perfect industry and criminal records found may not be yours or the person being investigated.  With most criminal record matching logic being based solely on name match only pairing, the possibilities of false positives can be alarming.  For people just looking for as much public records as they can find on an individual sorting through these numerous records is bearable, however not for human resources.  Using criminal records searching as part of the employment screening process is becoming more precise with less arbitrary data being reviewed or even considered.  Modern day human resources only want to see relevant criminal records on prospective hires and want to know that the criminal records returned actually belong to the person being investigated.

CriminalBackgroundRecords.com is leading the industry in this area and has processes and operations in place to deal with discrepancies in criminal record reports as well as the ability to facilitate removal and or expungement of certain court ordered criminal records.

With Americans going back to school and retailers competing on prices for back-to-school items like pencils and notebooks the scent of winter and the holidays is already in the air.  Many retailers will soon be gearing up for the busy holiday season and once again will need to hire a wide variety of part-time/season help.  Even though most temporary jobs and seasonal employment do not  come with the benefits granted to full time help (mainly health insurance), these temporary or seasonal employees appear to inflict only small costs to their retail employer.  This is true except for one risk.  The risk that a temp, part-time or seasonal employee steals from you or causes damages to person or property while on the clock or worse.  With pre-employment background checks now available for $30 or less per applicant retailers can no longer go on not screening their new hires, part-time or full-time.

View Related Press Release titled: Retail Background Checks

A criminal record is typically considered a juvenile criminal record if the perpetrator of the crime was under the age of 18 when they committed the crime. Many people who have committed a felony or other serious criminal offense in their youth did so out of peer pressure, being in the wrong crowd, adolescent emotion or from other outside influences that don’t completely represent the individual.  In these cases these juveniles have to deal with the court system, perform community service, pay restitution, and spend time in a correctional facility or some other kind of punishment for the wrong they have done.  These individuals quite often are not repeat offenders and can easily be re-assimilated back into free society and become productive law abiding citizens.  For this reason the United States of America’s court systems usually seal juvenile records from the public view thus allowing these individuals to enter adulthood with a clean slate and not allow a singularity in their past to prevent them from creating a worthwhile future.

View the full article:  Juvenile Criminal Records: What Can Be Done to Clean the Slate?