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• With six month anniversary of Newtown, Obama and Bloomberg continue major push for more gun control, but no explanation for how the law would have stopped that attack

  
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  info@barackobama.com sent out the following email today in support of the passing background checks. My mom, Dawn Hochsprung, was the principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Six months ago today, she was shot and killed in her school, along with five of her coworkers and 20 of her ...
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• Nevada’s Governor Vetoes Universal Background Checks

  
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  Nevada’s Governor Vetoes Universal Background Checks, While Biden set to jumpstart push for gun control next week. “One of the few who do know what they are doing is Gun Owners of America and Larry Pratt.” — Peter Moss, “ Who is Winning the Gun War? ” AmmoLand, June 5, 2013 Mayor Michael ...
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• Reid: We Won’t Let ‘Forces Of Extreme Minority Water Down’ Gun Control Bill

  
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  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden met Thursday with relatives of the victims of the Connecticut school shooting, who were visiting Washington on the eve of the six-month anniversary of the tragedy to push anew for gun control. Legislation to expand background checks for gun ...
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• Novel gun control: Prosecutors increase enforcement of existing laws after Sandy Hook shooting

  
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  Federal gun prosecutions, which reached a relative low late last year, have risen steadily in the months since December’s school shooting, according to the latest statistics that suggest the administration has put more effort into enforcing existing laws. In November, the month before the shootings at Sandy Hook ...
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• VIDEO: Reid, Newtown families renew push for expanded background checks

  
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  Post at TOBIASRENFROE.COM Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) spoke about the suicide of his father while he and the families of Newtown victims urged Congress on Thursday to pass legislation to require background checks for the transfer and sale of firearms. ...
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• Obama’s Amnesty Speech Falsehoods: Bogus Promises and Empty Rhetoric

  
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  On Tuesday, President Obama gave a speech in the East Room of the White House praising the efforts of the Senate in passing the “Gang of Eight” immigration reform bill. Surrounded by illegal immigrants and union leaders, among others, he told the audience, “If you genuinely believe we need to fix our ...
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• House Dems urge vote on background checks

  
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  Democrats took to the House floor today to commemorate the six-month anniversary of the schoolhouse massacre in Newtown, Conn., and to try to jump-start the seemingly moribund effort to get a background-check bill through Congress. The Senate rejected the bill in April, and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, ...
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• Free Public Criminal Records Online

  
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  Free Public Criminal Records Online At times, the term Criminal Record might be given another connotation by most individuals. It is an official archive of wrongdoings for which a person is condemned. This signifies that only misbehaviors that you have asserted as culpable or just been discovered guilty of after ...
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• Santa Monica Gunman Was Kicked Out Of School And Hospitalized For Threatening To Harm Classmates

  
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  Santa Monica shooter John Zawahri (Credit: Santa Monica Police Department) New details have emerged about the mental health record of John Zawahri, the gunman who killed five and wounded several others in Santa Monica last week, raising questions about how he was able to obtain the arsenal of military-style ...
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• Newtown families go to Capitol Hill, saying Were not going away

  
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  Senators who voted against expanding background checks on gun sales are learning this week that theyre going to have to keep facing the families of children and school staff killed six months ago in Newtown, Connecticut. Eight Newtown family members were in Washington to press for gun law reform: "Were here for the ...
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• The Consideration of Arrest and Conviction Records in Employment Decisions: A Critique of the EEOC Guidance

  
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  In an article to be published this month in the Seton Hall University Law Review, Hunton & Williams partners, Terry Connor and Kevin White have challenged the authority of the EEOC to publish its April 2012 Guidance .  That Guidance interprets Title VII to impose disparate impact liability on employers who ...
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• Background Checks Are More Accurate With eKnowID

  
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  eKnowID Background checks are becoming a normal hiring practice among HR professionals. In fact, 69 percent of employers run background checks on all job candidates prior to hiring them. What many HR professionals might not know is the prevalence of inaccuracies in the background checks performed by criminal ...
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• EEOC Files Suit Against BMW & Dollar General for Use of Criminal Background Checks

  
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  A BMW manufacturing facility in South Carolina, and the largest small-box discount retailer in the United States violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act by implementing and utilizing a criminal background policy that resulted in employees being fired and others being screened out for employment, the U.S. Equal ...
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• Refresher on use of criminal background checks in employment decisions

  
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  In the Spring of 2012 the EEOC released new enforcement guidance on the use of arrest and conviction records in employment decisions. This week, the EEOC showed it means business about this new guidance, so now might be a good time to review the Dickinson Employment Law Section’s detailed analysis of this guidance ...
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• EEOC Sends Message to Employers that Criminal Records of Job Applicants Must Be Used Carefully

  
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  In the Wall Street Journal article ‘Employment Checks Fuel Race Complaints,’ Attorney Lester Rosen, Founder and CEO of background check company Employment Screening Resources® (ESR) , says the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has been delivering the same message to employers since the ...
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• Biden Begins White House Push for Gun Control

  
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  Fresh off a two-month assault on your privacy, the White House will once again turn its attention to the Second Amendemnt. Politico reports that Vice President Joe Biden will host an event next week to begin the White House’s new push for gun control : Vice President Joe Biden will try to restart the dormant gun ...
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• Do Criminal Background Checks Hurt More Than They Help?

  
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  The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing two companies— BMW and Dollar General— alleging that their use of criminal background checks for employees violated the Civil Rights Act. Are criminal background checks, honestly, worth a shit? Read more...        
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• Race Matters: BMW And Dollar General Accused Of Discriminatory Hiring Practices Against Blacks In EEOC Lawsuits

  
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  In this economy just how fair are criminal background checks? The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission doesn’t think they’re fair since a disproportionate amount of qualified blacks are losing out on jobs. Via WaPo reports : The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Tuesday accused two major ...
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• Felon Writes Letter Thanking NRA For Enabling Him To Get Guns

  
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  The Hartford Courant published the following letter from a felon who thanked the National Rifle Association for its opposition to universal background checks: As a lifelong career criminal, although I no longer enjoy the right to keep and bear arms, Id like to take a moment to express my appreciation to the ...
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• When Employees Rob You Blind

  
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  Employee theft is a lot like the weather–everybody talks about it, but nobody is entirely sure what to do about it.   Employers implement all sorts of security precautions, but sill employee theft continues at pace.   Since the Recession, there has been a noted increase in employee theft as staff members in ...
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