Licensed gun sellers use the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, NICS, to determine people’s eligibility to purchase firearms. The system consists of three databases that contain ...

The most significant issue facing the security officer sector today is background check standardization. Our country has no national background check system to ensure all private security officer ...

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is working to clear a backlog of 230,000 court case dispositions that have not yet been linked to criminal records. The gap means some individuals could potentially ...

Dayton and Columbus filed a civil lawsuit that accused BCI of not fulfilling its “mandatory obligation” to collect and report disqualifying criminal conviction information into state and federal ...

SYSTEM. THAT’S RIGHT, JEN. UNDER FEDERAL LAW, SOMEONE WHO HAS A SERIOUS MENTAL HEALTH RECORD SHOULD BE REPORTED TO THE NICS DATABASE. BUT THERE’S NO MECHANISM TO DO THAT IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. SO THAT BILL ...

A national gun control group this week faulted New Hampshire for its continued refusal to provide information about dangerously mentally ill people to the national instant background-check system ...

State lawmakers have passed a bill that could improve Tennessee’s gun background check process through a universal court filing system. The push comes as the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation faces a ...

Two government officials said Tuesday that pending changes to the federal background check system could soon reduce the amount of time it takes to onboard new agency employees, assuming the changes ...

Thousands of Montgomery County Public Schools workers have fallen through cracks in background check systems, according to a new report, potentially meaning people with criminal histories could be ...

SACRAMENTO (AP) -- Intensive care nurse Meynard Villa was on the verge of losing his family's $150,000 investment in his new senior care home because he couldn't hire workers while grappling with a ...

Here's why: Following multiple false claims about voter disenfranchisement during the midterm elections, an Instagram video suggests that an Election Day computer glitch that briefly prevented people ...