Wanted: Accurate FBI Background Checks for Employment

Report
Clean Slate
Topics:
Background Checks
Collateral Consequences
Criminal and Juvenile Records
Employment
Reentry population:
Adults
Date:
Source:
National Employment Law Project

Wanted: Accurate FBI Background Checks for Employment

This report from the National Employment Law Project (NELP), discusses inaccuracies in FBI records and calls on the FBI to ensure that records are accurate and complete prior to being released for employment and licensing decisions.

This report focuses on finding the best solution to this problem nationally and, specifically, what the FBI must do to ensure records sent under its seal are accurate and complete.

The authors include recommend policies to reform the system and hold the FBI accountable for the records that bear its seal.