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San Francisco recently posted FAQs describing key provisions of the city’s Fair Chance Ordinance (“Ordinance”), which took effect on August 13, 2014. The “bans the box,” Ordinance prohibits most private employers and contractors in the…
Is California’s Investigative Consumer Reporting Agencies Act (“ICRAA”) constitutional? The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is poised to hear oral argument on the question on February 2, 2015. California created two separate laws when enacting a…
A growing number of states and localities have enacted laws that restrict employers from considering certain types of criminal records in hiring and other personnel decisions. Though many of these laws are more recent, Pennsylvania’s Criminal History Record…
Lead plaintiff Michael Craig Mitchell alleges in his class action lawsuit against two Maryland staffing companies, Allegis Group Inc. and its operating company Aerotek Inc. He alleges Allegis and Aerotek violated the Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) when they…
Adrian Wright Jr., 31, a former school janitor in Baton Rouge, was booked on a count of forcible rape of a 14 year old girl. On that Saturday, Wright allegedly pushed the girl, a student at North Banks Middle School, into a classroom and then raped her. She did not…
In Waco, TX, after La Vega ISD officials discovered possible criminal offenses that were missed because of improper background checking on an athletic trainer who was brought in to work with the cheerleaders the volunteer was barred from school property. The district…
The ACFE invites you to publish and/or post for your audience our new infographic, “The Cost of Complacency.” When it comes to fraud, what is the cost of complacency? Research conducted by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), the…
According to court records, the former operators of Sag Harbor’s 7-Eleven who also controlled 14 7-Elevens stores in Long Island and Virginia provided their employees with more than 20 identities stolen from United States citizens, housed those employees at…
On November 4, Oregon, Alaska, and the District of Columbia became the latest jurisdictions to pass referendums decriminalizing the recreational possession and use of small amounts of marijuana. Oregon’s law becomes effective in July 2015; Alaska’s…
A common occurrence when employees are confronted with a requirement to take a drug test: they often confess. Sometimes they suggest that the employer need not bother with the test because they know they will test positive. Under the Minnesota Drug and Alcohol Testing…