Posts Tagged ‘sex offender background checks’
NJ Woman Sues Dating Service for Inadequately Screening Match
For some, the good ol’ days, before the internet changed everything, were a more reliable and honest time. Predators weren’t lurking in cyberspace, and conversations were not interrupted by a cell phone buzzing with a text message. In terms of dating, before websites, you met a stranger face-to-face first, were set up on a blind…
Read MoreRegistered Sex Offender Found Working at Chicago Daycare
Can a parent trust a preschool, even a registered one, has no criminals or sex offenders amongst its staff? Yesterday, Fox Chicago News revealed an eco-friendly preschool in the West Loop area was unwittingly harboring a sex offender. Investigating a tip, the local news station found Eric Ellis, who is listed as a Registered Sex…
Read MoreIll. May Require Dating Websites to Use Background Checks
Like many adults, you join a dating website to meet others in your area, and then an individual contacts you. To feel each other out, you chat a bit online and then decide to meet up in a public place. Although, with online dating now far more common than it used to be, this scenario…
Read MoreBackground Checks for Dating Websites
Anyone can meet anyone online, and anyone can be someone else – real or fabricated – over the internet. As a result, dating website Match.com has been conducting sex offender background checks on all members. A screenwriter who met a man, who had six previous conviction of sexual battery, over Match.com a year ago sued…
Read MoreNo Background Checks Let Sex Offenders Slip Through Cracks in Schools
Sex offenders are ended up in teaching positions. Are a lack of criminal background checks to blame?
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