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AP IMPACT: When your criminal past isn't yours
AP IMPACT: 'I'm being punished for living right': Background check system is haunted by errors
By Jordan Robertson, AP Technology Writer
AP – Tue, Dec 20, 2011 1:24 PM EST
Very scary. Many, many employers now run background checks....
AP IMPACT: When your criminal past isn't yours
AP IMPACT: 'I'm being punished for living right': Background check system is haunted by errors
By Jordan Robertson, AP Technology Writer
AP – Tue, Dec 20, 2011 1:24 PM EST
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A clerical error landed Kathleen Casey on the streets.
Out of work two years, her unemployment benefits exhausted, in danger of losing her apartment, Casey applied for a job in the pharmacy of a Boston drugstore.
There was one technicality: The company that ran the background check, First Advantage, had the wrong woman. The rap sheet belonged to Kathleen A. Casey, who lived in another town nearby and was 18 years younger.
Very scary. Many, many employers now run background checks....