Criminal Searches

Employers court disaster at the hands of hourly employees who cannot be trusted. The horror stories fall into several categories

Why use Checkit?

• Aides hired to care for such vulnerable patients as infants, residents of assisted living facilities, people with disabilities or mentally ill individuals, present high risks to their employers. A company unwittingly hired an aide with a record of six felony convictions, who then murdered a severely disabled cerebral palsy patient in his care. The employer was found liable, for negligent hiring. Settlement: $26.5 million
• The top executive of a New England agency was fired recently when his board of directors discovered, through an anonymous phone call, that he had embezzled significant funds from his previous employer. Media reports labeled the directors negligent, as they had not bothered to check the executive’s background before hiring him.
• Several high-profile legal cases have featured a low-level employee- a stock employee or cashier- who sexually assaulted another employee when the two were alone in an elevator or on night duty with only a skeleton crew. When the attacker has a criminal record that did not come to light until after the assault, the victim is likely to win a lawsuit against the company.
• Criminal record checks must be done or you are risking the lives and livelihoods of your employees. CheckIt investigators perform real-time physical searches of county records, NOT DATABASE SEARCHES
• Beware of databases sold by states that centralize their conviction records; they will be out of date immediately.
• To find out what the applicant was convicted of requires visiting the appropriate county courthouse in person to obtain the record and case disposition.