In Australia, a trial date of February 2010 was set for former obstetrician Graeme Reeves.  Reeves was arrested and charged with nine counts of aggravated sexual assault, six counts of indecent assault, a count of female genital mutilation, and a count of maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm. Reeves continued to practice as an obstetrician despite [...]

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Robbyn Brooks reports in the Northwest Florida Daily News that Walton County Sheriff Michael Adkinson implemented a new random drug screening policy for employees in September 2009.  Employees with a positive test result will be disciplined and possibly fired.  According to the article, several local sherriff’s offices throughout the state of Florida require random drug [...]

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According to an article by Ray Gronberg in the Herald-Sun, city officials in Durham, North Carolina have warned employees on Durham’s payroll about an identity theft case that victimized three workers and urged workers to check their credit reports periodically.  Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the case: Alexis Brooke Faison, and Floyd [...]

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Boston Globe correspondent Jazmine Ulloa reported in the Globe that Boston’s Mayor Thomas Menino has urged state lawmakers to pass a law that would require random drug tests and alcohol testing for all Massachusetts public safety employees.  The city’s union of firefighters is opposed to such a measure.  Currently, Boston firefighters undergo random alcohol and drug [...]

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The Middletown Press’ Sloan Brewster reports that a Middlesex Hospice volunteer (Donald McGinnis) who has refused to submit to a background check will not be able to retain his position, under a new federal law. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid recently implemented a law requiring that all hospice volunteers have background checks conducted on [...]

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Garrett Therolf reported in The Los Angeles Times that 19 Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital employees were fired and 45 others disciplined after it was revealed that employees had been able to stay on staff despite the fact that background checks indicated past crimes that would make them ineligible for employment. In July 2008 The [...]

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The Toronto Sun reprinted a story on a ruling by Canada’s Supreme Court that the police were wrong to reject a job applicant due to a prior shoplifting conviction. The applicant, a woman who pled guilty to theft in 1990, was pardoned five years later. When she applied to be a police officer, police found [...]

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In a recent article in the New York Daily News, columnist Mildred Culp interviewed three Manhattan-based investigators to find out what they look for when conducting an employment screening background check for an employer.  Thomas Ruskin, of CMP Protective & Investigative Group, looks for specific information, including a bankruptcy filing, substantial debts, lying about filing [...]

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Connie Paige reports in The Boston Globe that a Massachusetts woman has filed suit against the Mormon church, on the charges that it failed to conduct a background check on a convicted sex offender, who allegedly went on to molest her 9-year-old son in 2004 at the church’s Methuen branch.  The lawyer for The Church [...]

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