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Since the Golden State has a unique set of background check laws, Attorney Lester Rosen, Founder and CEO of San Francisco, CA - area based Employment Screening Resources ® (ESR), will present the webinar «Dealing with «Only in California» Laws Regulating Employment Screening and Safe Hiring» on Monday, December 2, 2013 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 Noon PT...

Since the Golden State has a unique set of background check laws, Attorney Lester Rosen, Founder and CEO of San Francisco, CA - area based Employment Screening Resources ® (ESR), will present the webinar «Dealing with «Only in California» Laws Regulating Employment Screening and Safe Hiring» on Monday, December 2, 2013 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 Noon PT at the HR.com «HR In California» virtual conference.

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On the Democratic side, the appeal of stronger gun laws was evident in Clinton's attacks on rival Bernie Sanders over his past votes against background check laws and for limits on lawsuits against gun makers.

The poll results suggest that people want more officers conducting background checks; they want the same standards applied to those who buy a gun from a person at a gun show or online or at a physical store; they want to remove the background check work - around of buying a gun through a trust or corporation; and they want the feds to do a better job of notifying local law enforcement when people in their communities who are prohibited from purchasing a gun attempt to buy one.

The Metropolitan Taxi Commission wants Uber drivers to get fingerprinted as part of a background check, a requirement of Missouri law according to the commission.

And they should join us in instituting comprehensive background checks because law enforcement officers are nearly 50 percent — nearly 50 percent less likely to be killed in states where there are checks on the purchase of handguns.

Remington also said sales could be hurt by more government regulation, including enhanced background checks and a broader definition of «dealer» under current gun laws.

Cummings said in the letter, which he wrote with the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Eliot Engel, that «it appears that General Flynn violated federal law by omitting this trip and these foreign contacts from his security clearance renewal application in 2016 and concealing them from security clearance investigators who interviewed him as part of the background check process.»

The company is also pressing the government to enact gun - reform measures, including a ban on assault - style weapons, high - capacity magazines and bump stocks; raising the minimum age to 21 for gun purchasing; universal background checks that include scrutiny of mental - health information and previous run - ins with the law; and an end to the background - check loophole for gun show and private sales.

Instead, the analysts argue that simple laws such as universal background - check requirements, mandatory safe - storage laws, and a repeal of the state's horrendous Stand Your Ground «shoot - first» law could help reduce gun deaths.

A February poll by Quinnipiac University found 66 percent supported stricter gun laws across all demographics, with 97 percent of respondents saying universal background checks should be mandatory.

Sporting large yellow stickers that read «Background Checks Save Lives,» a number of religious leaders spoke about the need for stricter gun laws.

Legislators in Connecticut have passed what some are saying are the nation's toughest new gun laws — banning high - capacity magazines, creating a weapon offender registry, requiring universal background checks for firearm purchases and adding more types of guns under an existing assault weapons ban.

The number is consistent with other polling on the issue that finds around 90 % of people support more stringent background check laws.

We need conversations about loopholes in the laws that allow the sale of weapons at gun shows and by private dealers without proper background checks.

On page 1,967 of the 2,232 - page bill — immediately following a section about the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act and the National Criminal History Background Check and Criminal History Review Program — there is an addendum to a 1939 labor law that specifically carves out an exemption for minor league baseball.

the post Cowards, Cowards about my disappointment in the Congress to pass a law on background checks, something over 90 % of the country supported!

Republicans proposed Wednesday to amend the bill, including a requirement for background checks for certain child - care providers, and thereby force another vote in the Senate that would jeopardize the bill's chances of becoming law.

This year we are moving forward with new measures to make our laws even stronger, including preventing individuals with a history of domestic violence from purchasing or owning guns and extending the background check waiting period to up to 10 days.»

Cuomo said he won't rush for the completion of a stalled database for background checks on ammunition sales that was part of New York's controversial gun - control law in 2013.»

The security clearance of White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, Trump's son - in - law, has reportedly been downgraded after months of delays in completing his background check, and will now be limited in his ability to view highly classified information.

Doran said she is in favor of measures that keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill, while respecting the rights of law - abiding gun owners and that's why she supports a ban on military - grade assault - style weapons, strengthening background checks, as well as legislation to stop convicted domestic abusers from having access to guns.

«One year ago today a large majority of Senators, including Democrats and a number of Republicans, came together to support Governor Cuomo's NY SAFE Act — a law that bans assault weapons, protects our first responders and strengthens background checks to prevent criminals and the mentally ill from gaining access to guns,» Wagner said.

That law — which Senate Republican leadership supported, but many GOP state senators opposed — enacted universal background checks, restrictions on assault weapons, restrictions on the capacity of ammunition magazines, among other provisions.

In the wake of the Florida school massacre, the Democrats will tack on bills that have been stonewalled in committees — including banning bump stocks plus beefing up background checks and a law that allows courts to take away a disturbed person's guns — to unrelated legislation already up for votes.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is taking a beating from fellow Democrats and left - leaning entities like the Working Families Party for agreeing to suspend the creation of a database to be used for ammunition sale background checks — a provision of the controversial gun control law known as the SAFE Act.

Cuomo put forward a list of proposed laws that include: implementing a ban on assault rifles and high capacity magazines, a single license standard across the state for background checks, closing the loophole on private sales, and an increased onus on mental health professionals to report at - risk individuals.

«Senator Klein... and every member of the IDC supports building upon those laws by extending background checks to 10 days to make sure firearms do not wind up in the wrong hands,» Klein spokeswoman Candice Giove said Sunday.

If the instant federal background check doesn't clear the way for the sale for various reasons, including questions raised about the purchaser, current law allows a delay of up to three days to possess the firearm.

The Gaming Commission's website is also posting the names of the lobbyists who are representing the various casino developers, and the state is contracting with a Chicago - based law firm to conduct extensive background checks on the companies wishing to build casinos.

The New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement, or SAFE Act, includes a ban on all pre-1994 high capacity ammunition magazines, a ban on any magazine that holds over 7 rounds, and real - time background checks on ammunition purchases to alert law enforcement of high volume purchasing.

The ordinance also would institute universal background checks on buyers of firearms and challenges a 2011 state law pre-empting local governments from passing ordinances regulating guns.

Under a state law passed in June of last year, ride - hailing contractors are required to pass a criminal background check, but county lawmakers lobbied for more thorough vetting for prospective contractors in Westchester amid a slew of allegations against Uber and its employees, including a class action suit claiming drivers had sexually assaulted customers.

Another section of the resolution links New York's strict gun laws to the state's low rates of gun crime, while criticizing some state senators who have voted against «common sense» gun laws like a ban on bump stocks, improved background checks and state funding for research on gun violence.

When John Flanagan edged out John DeFrancisco to become the State Senate leader, he promised to move a bill modifying the law to eliminate background checks on ammunition and allow for the inheritance of newly banned «assault weapons.»

Moderator Liz Benjamin noted that recent polls show 55 percent of Americans favor stricter gun laws, and 92 percent favor background checks on gun sales.

There's moderate evidence that these laws can reduce the number of firearm homicides and suicides and limited evidence that background checks reduce violent crime and homicides in general.

Studies looking at seven of the investigated policies, including concealed carry laws and background checks, were inconclusive about whether those policies lowered the likelihood of a mass shooting.

Although 35 to 40 percent of all firearm transactions in the U.S. are between private parties, federal law does not require background checks for transactions among private parties.

One major study published in JAMA in 2000 analyzed suicide and homicide data from 1985 to 1997 to evaluate the impact of the Brady Act, a 1994 federal law that requires background checks for people buying guns.

There is moderate evidence to support conclusions that background checks reduce firearm suicides and firearm homicides, and that laws prohibiting the purchase or possession of guns by individuals with some forms of mental illness reduce violent crime, according to the analysis.

REDHERRING — Mar 27 — A federal law, the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act (IMBRA), makes it a felony for a man in the United States to communicate with a foreign woman via dating site, without the man first submitting unilaterally to criminal background and sex - offender checks and certifying all previous convictions or arrests, marriages, or divorces, children, and states of residence since the age of 18.

Companies who fail to conduct a background check or disclose information such as prior arrests can possibly be held liable for illegal acts committed through their platform, said Maureen Mapp, a lecturer at the University of Birmingham Law School in the United Kingdom.

«Criminal background checks provide users of online dating with a false sense of security,» said Bill Ashworth, director of state government affairs at Yahoo! No federal law imposes Internet restrictions on convicted sex offenders, but Florida and Nevada have enacted such measures.

Keep in mind that in nearly all cases the only laws in those few states that even have laws relating to online dating are typically laws to protect data loss or require dating site to add to their TOS (terms of service page) if they perform background checks on all new members.

FULL ARTICLE @ FIND LAW Mark Brooks: At the end of the day, cheap background checks fall short and can lead to a false sense of security.

True Beginnings has to either conduct criminal background checks according to the definitions of Texas law, or clearly state in the website that it does not conduct such checks.

In 2008, the state of New Jersey became the first to pass a law requiring dating sites to disclose whether they performed background checks, after successful lobbying from online dating service True.com, which already performed such screenings.

Pretend gun - free zones, where law - abiding adults (who pass a fingerprint - based background check and a safety training class) are still disarmed, are magnets for evildoers who know they will be able to murder at will with little threat of being fired upon.

The school «was in violation of state law requiring that school personnel (and certain contractors with direct access to students) be subject to a fingerprint - supported criminal background check prior to appointment at the school.