It's a safeguard for teachers, and day-care workers, and now, your doctors will soon join the ranks. The Texas Medical Board is now putting in tougher criminal background checks. The action comes ...

NORTH CAROLINA (WECT) - State education officials and a national media group have found North Carolina’s background check system for public school teachers to be woefully inadequate. The state does ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Spurred on by concerns that dangerous criminals are getting hired to care for ill, disabled and frail patients, legislation that would require ...

Two school districts in North Carolina — Union County Public Schools (UCPS) and Carrabus County Schools — do not fingerprint their employees while conducting background checks. Both districts say ...

GREENSBORO, NC -- Come January -- fingerprint black ink could make your children safer. A bill working its way through the state legislature would require all new teachers to get fingerprinted for ...

North Carolina parents sent their children back to school this week with the expectation that students would be safe with their teachers. But there’s one precaution in the hiring process that only a ...

Everyone working in Missouri's cannabis industry would be required to submit to a fingerprint background check under legislation approved Thursday. Under the constitutional amendment that voters ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Channel 9 has confirmed the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District stopped fingerprinting during background checks for new employees for the 2018-19 school year. The district ...