Teachers and other staff who regularly work with students in Nova Scotia schools will be required to get criminal background checks every five years, a move that comes after a handful of teachers this ...

Job applicant loses offer when background check calls him a sex offender. Aug. 29, 2011 — -- Samuel Jackson thought his job offer from Optics Planet was a done deal -- but then a routine ...

Coaches, festival assistants, scout leaders and other volunteers could be forced to pay for background checks if the Ottawa Police Service decides they need to help shoulder the $4.7-million cost of ...

As a result, local school boards have adopted a mishmash of policies, with nearly all hiring third-party vendors to conduct the checks with varying rigor and results, according to a WRAL News review ...

The privacy commissioners of Canada and British Columbia have launched an investigation into a Victoria-based company that performs background checks on tenants and others. They say in a joint ...

4:05 Biden says new executive order moves U.S. ‘close as we can’ to universal background checks for gun sales The grief is still suffocating, the anger still visceral, U.S. President Joe Biden said ...