In recent news driving services such as Uber were found by the Chicago Tribune to not have performed criminal background checks on some of their drivers. Instead they were allowing their drivers to ferry around passengers for months without knowing whether or not they had felony convictions. A KCRA.com investigation found that California was giving out letters clearing people to work for daycare or assisted living before they investigated their criminal records sometimes for serious crimes. This is of course an issue that needs to be resolved by the California State Legislature. From the CBS Local they found that a Dallas car service company ran into some issues with their pre-employment background checks when they found out that the multi-state database they were using was missing conviction records. The scope and depth of criminal background checks vary greatly from one provider to another. It is important for any organization or company to partner with a professional third party background screening company for thorough criminal background checks that encompass a certain geographical/political area and include criminal records such as felony convictions. To read more about this issue view recent CriminalBackgroundRecords.com press release: http://www.criminalbackgroundrecords.com/news/2014-4-23-Background-Checks-In-the-News.html