Category: Tenant Screening

Tenessee Congressman introduces legislation to amend FCRA

Congressman Steve Cohen (D-Tennessee-09) has introduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives – H.R. 645, to amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to prohibit the use of consumer credit checks against prospective and current employees for the purposes of making adverse employment decisions. Read the full text here

Wednesday April 3rd, 2013 in Background Checks, CA Employment Law, Employment Screening, Human Resources, Negligent Hiring, Tenant Screening | No Comments »

Bill To Remove Unfair Housing Practices Clears Senate

What this bill means to Landlords: SB 5568 – DIGEST Prohibits a tenant screening service provider from disclosing: (1) A tenant’s, applicant’s, or household member’sstatus as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, orstalking; or (2) That a tenant, applicant, or household member haspreviously terminated a rental agreement. Here is a news report from The [...]

Friday March 15th, 2013 in Tenant Screening, Tenant Screening Laws | No Comments »

CFPB issues new requirements for employers regarding credit checks

Employers who conduct background or credit checks on job applicants or current employees, take note: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the primary enforcer of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), recently issued new forms that employers must begin using effective January 1, 2013. What is the FCRA, and what does it require? The FCRA [...]

Wednesday March 13th, 2013 in Background Checks, CA Employment Law, Employment Law, Employment Screening, Human Resources, Negligent Hiring, Tenant Screening, Tenant Screening Laws | No Comments »

Proposed policy requires new hire background checks

If a new policy is approved by the Office of the General Counsel, new USF employees will be subject to a background check, and all employees will be required to report criminal convictions during their employment. The proposed policy states that new employees, including faculty, administration, staff and anyone with a temporary work status exceeding [...]

Tuesday December 4th, 2012 in Background Checks, Employment Law, Employment Screening, Human Resources, Negligent Hiring, Tenant Screening | No Comments »

California Prop 35 internet disclosure requirement blocked

A day after California voters approved Proposition 35, a federal judge temporarily blocked the new law’s requirement that the state’s 73,000 registered sex offenders must immediately give police a list of their online screen names and Internet service providers. U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson issued the temporary restraining order in San Francisco in a federal [...]

Tuesday November 20th, 2012 in Background Checks, Employment Screening, Human Resources, Tenant Screening | No Comments »

Fair Tenant Screening Act goes into Effect

The Fair Tenant Screening Act – which Governor Gregoire signed last March – went into effect this morning. This marks the start of significant new protections for all of Washington’s renters, and is a major breakthrough in the barriers tenants face accessing affordable housing. From now on, every tenant will know the criteria a landlord [...]

Monday June 11th, 2012 in Tenant Screening, Tenant Screening Laws | No Comments »

Renters Running Background Checks On Landlords

A criminal past or financial trouble could put a landlord on a city’s blacklist. Charlotte doesn’t have a list yet, but more renters are doing background checks on potential landlords. “We’ve got a lot of landlords out there who are trying to get people into their homes, not because they want to be landlords… but [...]

Thursday June 7th, 2012 in Tenant Screening, Tenant Screening Laws | No Comments »

It’s landlords who need protection from tenants

In view of many years as an accountant managing rented offices and residential properties in a property investment company and also from my own experiences dealing with tenants, I must respond to the letter Pressing need for a Tenancy Actfrom SM Mohamed Idris. While I agree that there is a need for a Tenancy Act, [...]

Wednesday June 6th, 2012 in Negligent Hiring, Tenant Screening, Tenant Screening Laws | No Comments »

Is Facebook the Next Tenant Screening Tool?

Last summer’s party anthem, “Last Friday Night (TGIF)” may have had you rocking out in your car and empathizing with the line, “pictures of last night ended up on line, I’m screwed.”  But have you really contemplated how the photos of your night of debauchery might hurt you in the future? There has been a [...]

Thursday May 24th, 2012 in Tenant Screening, Tenant Screening Laws | No Comments »