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Image: Courtblog.imagesoftinc.com …   … Electronic Wet Signatures – What are they and how do they benefit you? You already use an electronic wet signature almost every day when you shop.

Focus on Civil Searches, straight from the desk of Elisabeth Stover, the KRESS office manager and expert on finding the right record for the job.  … What exactly are civil searches? Are they worth the weight everyone seems to give them?

The single source database and other myths of criminal background checks … There is no single source for criminal background checks. There—it’s out.

More data is always better, right? Not necessarily, especially when it is being used against you.

Voter registration, much like the Electoral College, doesn’t seem to matter until it intersects with our lives. Then, it really matters. This weekend, we wrap up the final race in the mid-term elections, the race for a Louisiana Senate seat between Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) and Rep. Bill Cassidy (R).

Everyone knows credit information stays on your report for seven years and for most employers you can only go back seven years when performing background checks – BUT WHY? Is it biblical, strategic or arbitrary?  The answer to the reason for seven years of credit history will surprise you.

Debtor’s financial records are available to debt collectors through Accurint, a service provided by LexisNexis; however, earlier this month, a federal judge required a payment of $13.5M for violations of the FCRA.

“August 2014 will have 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays. This only happens once every 823 years.  The Chinese call it silver pockets full.

At this point, 22 states have legalized medicinal marijuana. Possession of marijuana is also the third most common criminal conviction.