Legislation in the NC House would rrequire people applying for a teaching license to be fingerprinted and receive a criminal records check Calling it a matter of school safety, state lawmakers could ...

MCPS has cleared its background check backlog of nearly 10,600 school-based staff, completing fingerprinting of a majority of ...

The Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry (NMLS), a mortgage licensing system owned and operated by state financial regulators, will begin processing federal criminal background checks for ...

Companies like Airbnb say they use background checks to help protect the community. Background checks have proliferated but there are common flaws in the system, experts say. Here's what criminal ...

The state health commissioner says the department lacks authority to run criminal checks through law enforcement, relying ...

When Kenneth Hall, the former Office of Residential Life and Learning administrative assistant recently convicted in Suffolk County as a sex offender, applied to work at Tufts, the university did not ...