Whether you’re a landlord vetting a potential tenant or a business owner hiring new staff, today’s background check services ...

A May 1 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a screenshot of a 2018 news article with the headline "Obama Removed 500,000 Pedophiles From Background Check Database." The article's subhead ...

A federal system for doing background checks on law enforcement officers has gone offline — thanks to an executive order signed by President Trump when he returned to the White House on Jan. 20. The ...

This claim misrepresented a 2017 Washington Post report about hundreds of thousands of "fugitives from justice" being purged from the background check database for gun purchases. The report did not ...

Amid the grief in response to the mass shootings in Texas, New York and California, there’s an ongoing search for solutions, especially ones that can push through the political deadlock over gun ...

Ohio is rolling out a new digital tool for local law enforcement and courts to enter information — such as warrants and protection orders — into state and federal criminal databases. These databases ...

SEATTLE — Recent mass shootings have spurred Congress to try to improve the nation’s gun background check system that has failed on numerous occasions to keep weapons out of the hands of dangerous ...

WASHINGTON -- After the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, Congress passed a law to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. The measure, signed by President George W. Bush, promised to strengthen ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – The federal personnel agency whose records were plundered by hackers linked to China says it has temporarily shut down a massive database used to update and store background ...

In the digital age, performing a background check on someone is easier than ever before. FreeBackgroundCheck.io, an innovative free background check platform, allows users to find and access public ...

The cities of New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco are suing the Department of Defense for failing to consistently report convictions to a federal database that is checked before firearms ...

In the flurry of first-day executive orders, President Trump revoked a 2022 police accountability package, including a system to flag misconduct. Trump took down police misconduct database, but states ...