Seattle Bans Landlords from Conducting Criminal Background Checks In a recent move that started with good intentions but with controversial effects, a new Seattle law has banned landlords from conducting criminal background checks. In the new city ordinance CB 119015, also known as the Fair Chance Housing Ordinance, prohibits landlords from excluding prospective tenants because of their criminal history, from requiring or conducting criminal background checks of those prospective tenants, or from charging them higher rents andRead More

Background checks are designed to validate candidate resume’s and protect employers from hiring risks. The process of finding the right candidate for the job position can be a daunting task. What’s worse is when time and resources are wasted due to candidates falling off because of a poor experience during the background screening process. According to a recent CareerBuilder survey, more than a third of employers (38%) have lost candidates because they had a negativeRead More

  The state of Rhode Island is getting serious about background checks. The attorney’s office has decided to bring back state and national criminal background check services. They will start to offer the screenings at different locations across the state in August. The mobile background check services will be offered to anyone required by statute to have a national background check conducted through the attorney general’s office and for those required to have a stateRead More

A new state law in Virginia expanded voluntary background checks on private sales of fire arms at a Virginia gun show doesn’t seem to be yielding the results supports thought. The program was put into place last year and in the first year, only 54 background checks were requested by private sellers across 77 gun shows in the entire state. And only one gun buyer was actually denied the purchase of a gun. Well, What’sRead More

If you haven’t heard of AirBnB, you might be living under a rock. The fast growing traveling service is currently worth $30 billion with thousands of hotels copying its’ laid back approach to where people stay when they are visiting a brand new place. The concept started when the founders decided to list their couch on online for people to stay at, and the “couch surfing” site blew up from there. Things have happened before…Read More