State-mandated background checks for volunteers working with children are taking more than 20 days instead of the 14-day standard, but a hiring surge is helping. 

 Georgia will no longer require job applicants to disclose their criminal histories on employment forms.  

 Uber's safety chief is promising to improve driver screening using biometrics and voice verification. 

Prosecutors in Los Angeles and San Francisco have sued Uber over its background check policies and other business practices.

According to a study from the National Center for Credibility Assessment, programs using computer-generated interviews can be less “time-consuming, labor-intensive and costly to the Federal Government,” and that interview subjects are more likely to admit certain things to a robot, such as alcohol use and mental health.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has signed into law The Opportunity to Compete Act, otherwise known as the “Ban the Box” bill.

The IRS failed to do background checks on some private contractors who handled confidential taxpayer information, exposing more than a million taxpayers to an increased risk of fraud and identity theft.

A government database, which serves as a repository for raw intelligence about terrorist suspects or their associates, has nearly doubled in the past five years to include 1.1 million people by the end of last year. 

The Defense Department will implement a new screening system that will subject people to FBI background checks every time they enter a military base.