The cities of Dayton and Columbus have settled a multi-year lawsuit against the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation that alleged the state agency’s background check system is dangerous and broken ...

Gov. Maura Healey reduced the cap on the number of families allowed in the state-run shelter system by 1,700 and released regulations that require applicants to the program to consent to a local ...

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Are you considering hiring a new employee? For workplace safety, having all the necessary information about someone before making important decisions is essential. That’s where criminal background ...

Ohio is upgrading its criminal background check system for home- and community-based healthcare workers, according to a report by The Columbus Dispatch. With the upgrade, healthcare organizations can ...

A measure to beef up enforcement of the nation’s background check system for potential gun buyers will be included in the government funding bill due for a congressional vote this week. The provision, ...

Background checks for gun purchases are supposed to be quick, but in some parts of the country they are stretching from minutes into days or even weeks. When that happens, you are left in limbo, ...

RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia Department of Social Services expects to clear a backlog of criminal background checks by February 3 after technical issues resulting from the deployment of a new criminal ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday ordered a review of a government database used for background checks on gun buyers, after a man who killed 26 people in a Texas ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A local school district is leading a statewide effort to tighten criminal background checks on prospective employees. CORI checks, ...

Gun buyers at Roy Bennett's Lone Star Gun and Indoor Range in Lumberton are required by law to fill out a form for a federal background check. The check is to ensure the applicant has no criminal ...