In April the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) released new enforcement guidance pertaining to the use of criminal history searches primarily in the employment screening process in a way that is not discriminatory. The use of criminal background checks in the USA in the employment screening industry has been growing tremendously as criminal background checks become easier to run, cheaper to buy, faster to get search results with and the information on criminal reports themselves becoming more accurate and current even if accessed electronically through high speed Internet gateways and data-integrity repositories.
Follow this link to read more on this subject: http://www.criminalbackgroundrecords.com/news/2012-06-11-EEOC-and-Use-of-Criminal-History-Searches.html