Officials in Washington state are calling for a “rap-back” notification system to be put in place to help them keep track of alleged criminal activities committed by workers in positions of trust. Child care workers and foster parents are the main focus at the moment, but this system could easily be expanded to include other occupations like teachers and nursing home workers.

Right now, child care workers and foster parents are required to pass criminal background checks prior to employment. However, once they pass the background check, they are essentially in the clear. No one checks up on them again, so they could potentially become involved in criminal activity with no one being the wiser.

With a “rap-back” system in place, officials would receive automatic notifications each time a worker was involved as a suspect in any sort of criminal investigation. This would help prevent embarrassing and dangerous situations, like having offenders working with children or drug abusers working in a nursing home with easy access to prescription drugs. The state could set up its own system to check workers’ records on an ongoing basis, or use a service like Ongoing Criminal Monitoring from backgroundchecks.com. Ongoing Criminal Monitoring enables companies to submit a worker’s name and date of birth and then have automatic monthly checks run on that individual. If new records of criminal activity are recorded, backgroundchecks.com will notify the employer via email. The process is renewable in 12-month increments.

Washington state officials became interested in “rap-back” notifications after a state audit of Washington’s state-regulated and state-subsidized child care facilities and foster homes turned up some disturbing statistics. The audit revealed that 28 offenders had been living or working in state facilities between 2002 and 2012. In some cases the problem was that the supervisors at the facilities failed to notify the state of new employees or residents, while in other cases the problem was that the offenses were committed after the initial background check process had been completed.

State officials hope that initiating ongoing criminal monitoring will help keep children safe from offenders. It certainly does seem like a step in the right direction. After all, passing a background check is no guarantee of future good behavior. However, ongoing criminal monitoring or “rap-back” services provide more up-to-date information that can be used to make sure workers remain fit for employment in positions of trust.

It is telling that the “rap-back” process is intended to return criminal allegations, not just criminal convictions. When it comes to getting kids out of an unsafe situation, time is of the essence and state officials can’t always wait for the justice system to run its course. Instead, they must be proactive and review allegations will allow them to do so.

Currently Washington state is one of only 10 states that does not keep civil applicant fingerprints or use an ongoing criminal monitoring service. If the proposal for “rap-backs” is adopted, Washington state will then be following a recommendation that the federal government has been making since 2008.

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Source: http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020938511_apwaauditsexoffenders.html

Author: Michael Klazema

At the end of last month the Borough Council of Eatontown met to discuss an amendment that will require recurring background checks on all members of firefighters and first aid squad members. If passed, this ordinance amendment will require all of these first responders to undergo a fingerprint-based background check every three years that they are a part of the organization. Before drafting the amendment, the idea was discussed first with the first emergency responders who had no objections.

Currently, all firefighters and first aid responders are required to submit to fingerprint-based criminal background checks upon hiring, but there are no follow--up checks. Borough Administrator George Jackson states that "We have no way of knowing in the interim if they have any arrests and convictions. The possibility is that someone could be arrested or convicted in another part of the state and we'd have no idea." Since these first responders have access to people's homes, Jackson wants to ensure that they have no criminal activity on their records for as long as they are working for these emergency first responder units. This will not only bring peace of mind to the civilians, but also help protect these units from any potential liability. Jackson states that the council is also discussing if the amendment should include members of the borough's Office of Emergency Management and Community Emergency Response team. Unfortunately, their membership policies are not as clear cut as those for the fire department or the first aid squad.

Currently, there are no discussions on requiring recurring checks of other employees, such as police officers and civilian employees of the court or law enforcement. Like the firefighters and first aid responders, they undergo an initial criminal background check with no follow-up checks. Jackson states the borough would be aware of police officers convicted of crimes in other jurisdictions. It's unclear how they will become aware, though it's possible that the borough receives reports from other counties regarding their own police officers.

Although having a background check come back clean doesn't necessarily mean that an individual has never committed a crime, it does lend more credibility to these institutions. Currently, Eatontown is one of the first cities in the United States to discuss implementing a recurring background check. Most other cities only do an initial check, with many only doing a county check versus a state-wide and national. Many firehouses have taken it upon themselves to run a recurring background check on their employees and volunteers for liability purposes without pressure from the borough council. There is currently no national legislation requiring background checks on these first responders, and it is therefore up to the county and state to set rules.

Should your organization decide to extend screening to recurring checks, it would be easy to do so with the help of backgroundchecks.com. You can start with their US OneSEARCH tool, which will check more than 450 million criminal records across the nation, and subscribe to their Ongoing Criminal Monitoring solution. This service will alert you each month, should any new criminal records appear for your current employees. This is a convenient and affordable service that makes keeping tabs on the criminal behavior of your employees much easier than ever before.

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Source: http://www.app.com/article/20130214/NJNEWS/302140042/Eatontown-may-require-recurring-criminal-checks

Author: Michael Klazema

A recent audit has found that during a ten year period from 2002 to 2012, there were twenty-eight sex offenders living in child care and foster homes regulated or subsidized by Washington State, including one who worked for nine years in a high school as a janitor. The review stated that the problem could be prevented if state laws were followed more strictly, and offered several recommendations for procedures the state should follow to better keep children safe from sex crime offenders. However, the auditor’s office spokeswoman, Mindy Chambers, said the state agencies should be commended for taking action to quickly improve procedures after learning about the problems. Lawmakers contend that the audit shows more should be done in order for children to be protected, including improved communication and background checks.

State Representative Bruce Dammeier said he was very concerned that only certified school workers such as teachers and librarians were regularly being checked against sex offender lists. Since 2005, Washington State law has required that any school employee must be searched for in the State Patrol’s sex offender database. Dammeier said that while he was glad to see that an auditor ran the database check and “that they only uncovered one (school) employee with a sex offense…one is too many.” The school janitor that the audit uncovered had initially passed his background check, but within two years was convicted of voyeurism, while continuing to work at the school. State law enforcement officials failed to alert the school district or education department of the offense. The State Patrol was also faulted by the audit for failing to disclose conviction information provided by other states.

Seventeen of the remaining sex offenders the audit uncovered were living in residences operating as home child care providers, and 11 resided in foster care homes. In most of these cases the offenders were undetected due to the care providers neglecting to inform state agencies that the offenders were living there, according to the audit. Two of the home daycares were licensed as Department of Early Learning Child Care Sites, and one had its license revoked while the other ceased operations. In the foster home cases, children were removed from homes and licenses were revoked. State Senator Mike Carrell said next year he would like to introduce a bill that would look more closely at unlicensed home daycares to make sure sex offenders were not working or living there.

State governments are becoming increasingly more vigilant when it comes to background checks, especially for those working with children. However, there are still many offenders out there who fall through the cracks. By using a reputable company like backgroundchecks.com, you can be assured you are getting the best and most thorough background check screening techniques available.With access to countless criminal databases nationwide they have many options available, several with instant results. Their Ongoing Criminal Monitoring tool allows you to automatically run a continuous background check against a name and date of birth. You will be notified via email of any new information that may appear on their record. They will run the name for one year and remind you when it is time to renew the monitoring, plus you can remove the name from being monitored at any time. Or start with their US Offender OneSEARCH, which includes information contained in their comprehensive US OneSEARCH. Plus, this data includes sex offender information from 49 states (plus Washington D.C., Guam, and Puerto Rico) with photos.

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Source: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018843974_apwaauditsexoffenders2ndldwritethru.html

A Spartanburg, South Carolina charity that provides services to low-income residents is now looking at nearly $40,000 less in their funds to help the needy. Former director of TOTAL Ministries, Karen Bradley, was arrested on charges that she stole from the charity. After her arrest, it was discovered that she also committed a similar crime about 13 years ago. Bradley admitted to stealing $11,000 from a Mobile Alabama non-profit in 1999. Bradley acted as the executive director for TOTAL Ministries from July 2010 until March 2012, at which time she was fired. When Bradley began working for the charity, they were not performing background checks on potential employees.

In 1998, Bradley was working for the Mobile Arts and Sports Association (MASA) as a ticket manager for a charity football event known as the Senior Bowl. MASA said they have donated millions of dollars to charities in the community since 1951. An audit revealed the non-profit was missing thousands of dollars from the time Bradley was employed with them. She was later arrested and in 1999 pleaded guilty to stealing $11,000, receiving a one year suspended sentence. This time, Bradley stands accused of allocating nearly $40,000 of TOTAL Ministries’ funds for personal use. She also used the charity’s credit card for purchasing groceries, personal electronics, meals, and more. After receiving information that there was a problem with the books, the board of directors fired Bradley.

Now, TOTAL Ministries faces a possible fine from the South Carolina Secretary of State’s Office for making false statements. All non-profits in the state are required to register with the office to solicit forms, and must vow on the form that none of their directors or board members has committed any crimes against a charitable organization in the U.S. Since the charity failed to perform a background check on Bradley, they said no. Mark Hammond, S.C. Secretary of State, is asking TOTAL why they would check no to the question without checking the backgrounds of their employees. TOTAL’s interim director, Traci Kennedy, said she was unaware of Bradley’s criminal past, and going forward they will perform background checks on all of their employees. Bradley has been charged with fraud and is currently awaiting sentencing.

Don’t let your business be held liable for dishonest employees. If your business is not performing regular background checks, you could potentially be facing fines, lost business, and worse. Take control of your hiring practices. By using a reputable company like backgroundchecks.com, you can be assured you are getting the best and most thorough background check screening techniques available.With access to countless criminal databases nationwide they have many options available, several with instant results. Their Ongoing Criminal Monitoring tool allows you to automatically run a continuous background check against a name and date of birth. You will be notified via email of any new information that may appear on their record. They will run the name for one year and remind you when it is time to renew the monitoring, plus you can remove the name from being monitored at any time.

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Source: http://www2.wspa.com/news/2012/jul/25/19/spartanburg-police-former-non-profit-director-took-ar-4194932/

School board member John Dutcher of the Johnston Community School District Board of Education isquestioning why the school district only conducts background checks at the time of hire and not during contract renewals. Dutcher voiced his concerns during a recent Board of Education meeting to approve renewing the contract of Johnston School District Superintendent Clay Guthmiller. Dutcher was the only board member who opposed the contract renewal. A two-year contract with Guthmiller was approved, which includes a 3.25 percent salary raise. After the meeting Dutcher said his “no vote on the contract is self-explanatory,” and doesn’t “share in other board members’ desire” for Guthmiller to continue his employment with the district.

During the meeting, Dutcher questioned the school district’s background check policies, and recommended the district do more thorough investigations on employees. He gave a hypothetical example of a district employee possibly obtaining a part-time administrative position. He said if that happened without a background check, that it “would be unfortunate.” Dutcher declined to mention any specific reservations he may have had regarding Guthmiller, and if his reason for rejecting the contract renewal was related to the lack of a recent background check. The district’s Associate Superintendent of Human Resources, James Casey, said that the policy was to only conduct background checks on potential hires, but certain legal troubles could result in termination for current employees. While the renewal of Guthmiller’s contract does not call for another background check, it does require an annual performance evaluation.

Greg Dockum , also a Johnston School Board member, is in agreement with the current policy on background checks held by the school district. He said it would be “highly unusual” to conduct a check “on a long-tenured employee.” Dutcher defended his stance by saying as a member of the school board it is his duty to ensure that “the best possible decisions” are made to benefit the community and employees of the school district. However, Marci Cordaro, Board President, remarked that Dutcher is often critical of district decisions. She said she doesn’t “know for sure why he voted the way he did.”

In recent months, schools have been continuing to evaluate their background check policies. Some are leaving nothing to chance, as discussed in the recent article, New Hampshire School Introducing Background Checks for All Visitors. When it comes to the safety of children, regular and ongoing background checks are a good policy. By using a reputable company like backgroundchecks.com, you can be assured you are getting the best and most thorough background check screening techniques available. With access to countless criminal databases nationwide they have many options available, several with instant results. Their Ongoing Criminal Monitoring tool allows you to automatically run a continuous background check against a name and date of birth. You will be notified via email of any new information that may appear on their record. They will run the name for one year and remind you when it is time to renew the monitoring, plus you can remove the name from being monitored at any time. Or to find out about possible aliases, try their US AliasSEARCH. This is a multi-faceted search that combines US OneSEARCH with the known aliases provided from a SSN trace. All information derived from this search is run through the US OneSEARCH instant criminal database, assuring all possible aliases are found.

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Source: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20120712/COMM/307120025/Superintendent-renews-contract-with-Johnston-school-district?Frontpage&nclick_check=1

Administrators at Hollis Brookline High School in Hollis, New Hampshire, have announced they would like to implement required background checks on all visitors to the school, as part of new security procedures. According to Principal Cynthia Matte, “the security of our students and staff is the number one priority.” “We do need to add some security measures; it’s just good practice. When this school was built, security wasn’t thought of as a requirement, and we’re just trying to correct that.” The new security procedures come after a security audit performed at the school five years ago, and is comprised of a three-phase plan to improve the school’s security as part of a joint effort by school staff members and local safety experts.

Presented to the school board in May, the plan is still pending approval. If approved this summer, the plan will be implemented over the course of three years. The background check phase of the plan would include the use of software to scan the driver’s licenses of visitors to screen for registered sex offenders, domestic violence offenders, and other offenses that could potentially pose a threat to students. The software would instantly alert designated officials via email, telephone and text message if a threat is identified. An ID badge is printed for visitors cleared by the software. At a cost of $500 annually, the software would also track faculty and volunteer hours, as well as the arrival and departure of students.

New ID cards would be issued to students and staff, as well as hardware to secure all exterior doors and the installation of key swipe pads at the front and back doors, as part of the first phase of the plan. Cameras at each exit are also included. The keypads track who comes into the building and at what time, and can be programmed to work only at certain times of the day or year only. Although Matte says the school has already made some of the smaller changes recommended by the audit, more needs to be done. “It’s something that’s been on our radar, knowing that we have to tighten up security,” she said. She adds that due to increased incidents of school violence, the staff at the high school is taking a more proactive approach to security measures.

Putting extra security measures in place, including background checks, is always a good idea.When it comes to the safety of children, you can never be too safe. If your business has employees in regular contact with minors, you should be utilizing regular background checks. Make it easy by using a company like backgroundchecks.com. With access to countless criminal databases nationwide, they provide several options for instant results. Their Ongoing Criminal Monitoring tool allows you to automatically run a continuous background check against a name and date of birth. They notify you via email of any new information that may appear on the record, and will run the name for one year and remind you when it is time to renew the monitoring. You can remove the name from being monitored at any time. Or for more specific information on sex offenders, their US Offender OneSEARCH includes information contained in their comprehensive US OneSEARCH. Plus, this data includes sex offender information from 49 states (plus Washington D.C., Guam, and Puerto Rico) with photos.

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Source: http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/963005-196/story.html

Sites including eHarmonay and Match.com announced that they have entered into a partnership agreement with the California attorney general to better protect their respective dating sites members, including implementing policies and proceduers to screen their subscribers and members against sex-offender databases.

The development of this agreement stems from a lawsuit filed in 2011 against Match.com by one of their users,  who was attacked by another Match.com member after going on a date with him, follwowing a match proposed by the site. After the attack was investigated it turned out that the man was a repeat sex offender. As part of a settlement Match.com reached with the plaintiff in August of last year, they already agreed to start screening their members for possible matches against sex offender registries.

At the time many speculated that Match.com's policy would be followed by others in the industry, such as eHarmony. With the announcement today that expectation is now confirmed and others are urged to join the practice and the agreement.

Dating sites that quickly want to comply with this approach can turn to backgroundchecks.com. One of their products is the US Offender OneSEARCH which can scan new subscribers for matches against sex offender databases all over the country. It provides information from all 50 states, plus Washington DC, Guam, and Puerto Rico, with photos. Unique to backgroundchecks.com is their ability to complement the above search type with an ability to continually monitor a member list for updates to those records with their product Ongoing Criminal Monitoring. Both of these products are available for ordering through the standard website order interface for smaller dating sites and agencies, but can also be accessed and ordered through backgroundchecks.com API which allows for tighter integration with the dating site's online registration process and back office security and compliance operations.

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Source: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-20120323,0,1556561.column

The state of Kentucky is taking steps to ensure that all of their elderly residents who live in long term care facilities will be safer by attempting to pass a bill that would require all employees to undergo fingerprint based full criminal background checks. This would constitute a huge improvement over how screening has been done in the past.

Currently, in Kentucky, a person who is employed by a long term care facility must go through a background check that only searches state records. There is no search of national records, nor are the background checks specifically deep or detailed. The newly proposed background checks in the bill will search national databases for any criminal abuse convictions via a combination of name and finger prints. The new system would also use continuous monitoring of employee names which would alert the state and facilities if one of their employees was involved in any crime. The state of Kentucky currently has about 24,000 employees working in long term care facilities and all of them would be subject to these new background checks if this bill is passed.

The cost of the background checks would be taken care of by a grant that the state was given by the Federal government. Along with a state grant, it is thought that the state would be able to pay for these background checks until 2014. At that point, the state facilities would have to pay for the background checks themselves or pass the fee along to applicants and employees. The bill has been passed by the Kentucky state Senate and has been moved on to the state House.

The importance of these types of background checks is evident when you consider the incidence of elder abuse in the country. Third party companies like backgroundchecks.com have long advocated adding nationwide instant searches to complement more traditional single jurisdiction searches in order to cost effectively increase the search coverage and not purposely leave out jurisdictions across the US that are available

They have a wide variety of products to compliment initial screening packages, including a product like Ongoing Criminal Monitoring. Similarly to the program proposed by the Kentucky bill, this system continuously monitors the name and date of birth of all employees. Companies and organizations would be notified when any additional or new criminal records  associated with an employee appeared in the system.

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Source: http://www.kentucky.com/2012/03/01/2090890/bill-would-require-finger-print.html

It has come to light that an estimated 35% of all county child welfare workers in Los Angeles County have never gone through a criminal background check. The county Board of Supervisors has ordered that employees who slipped through the cracks immediately get background checks done. As part of the background check they will need to be fingerprinted and put through a criminal background check before going back to work.

The county currently requires that all new employees as well as those who are given a promotion go through a background check.  On top of that, other county employees, like those who work for the park service, are also subject to these background checks. The problem was, these checks are only done at hiring or promotion and somehow they now have about 35% of their employees who slipped through the cracks. For many people, this is simply unacceptable and even though the county has taken swift action to correct this, they still want answers as to why these background checks were not done in the first place on such a large percentage of the employees.

County leaders do admit that they consciously did not require background checks back  in 1997, the year these checks became mandatory, but that is unlikely to make up 35% of their staff. At this point, it is unknown what will happen to employees who fail these background checks, but in other cases around the country they were often terminated.

Los Angeles County states that they have an effective system for background checks. As mentioned above, a fingerprint check and criminal check are done when a person is hired, but that type of check simply may not offer enough coverage. Especially those who work with children in the Welfare office must be criminally clean and be trusted to offer an abundance of care and support for kids, many who may be abused. Using a background check company like backgroundchecks.com could help the County of Los Angeles better keep track of their employees by offering a few of their products.

One of the products that backgroundchecks.com has is called Ongoing Criminal Monitoring. Used in conjunction with their other products, this criminal monitoring will continuously run the name of employees against crime records nationwide. If there is ever a match, the company will be notified that their employee has been involved in a crime.

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Source: http://cerritos.patch.com/articles/county-child-welfare-workers-to-undergo-criminal-background-checks

The state of Illinois has a mandate that all teachers in all schools go through a criminal background check before being able to work in the state. For some, however, the background checks that are currently being done are simply not enough. An incident in late December, where a school custodian, Kenneth Brown, exposed himself to a female teacher, caused this call for change. Though no students were present at the time, the fact that it happened at all is alarming to many school officials and parents.

Officially, Illinois state law focuses only on those school employees who were hired after 2004. Those hired before that time were never required to go through a background check. Since Brown has been employed at the school since 2000, his background, which is littered with petty crimes like theft, was never put through a full criminal background check. Employees who go through the full background check are subject to fingerprinting and are made ineligible for employment should there be any crimes like drug offenses or felonies. Theft, like the crime committed by Brown, is also included, however he was grandfathered in and fell through a loophole.

Another concern from parents and district leaders is the fact that Naperville school employees are only required to go through a background check when they are hired, not after that. Technically there could be teachers or other employees who are working at Naperville schools who have a criminal background, but the crime was not committed until after they were hired. There are many instances where a person could be accused of a crime and the workplace would never know unless someone stumbled upon public records.

Suggestions to change this are being tossed around and one of them is that a random background check be done on ten percent of all employees each year.  Another suggestion is to use a third party background check company like backgroundchecks.com which offers several products that would help the school district keep tabs on any crimes committed by their employees. One of these products is known as Ongoing Criminal Monitoring and would allow the schools to be notified when any of their employees has a new crime record appear in the national database. There is also the option, of course, to rescreen all employees every few years as a way to ensure that children are able to attend a school where they will be safe from bad situations.

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Source: http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20120220/news/702209725/