by Eric J. Ellman | Mar 22, 2024
In March 2024, there was a joint press release from the DOJ, FTC, CFPB, and HUD announcing a joint document, Tenant Background Checks and Your Rights. The press release notes that “[t]he new resource provides information about how tenant background checks work, what...
by Eric J. Ellman | Sep 27, 2023
In 2018, Congress passed the Child Protection Improvements Act of 2018 (CPIA). The Act, enacted as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 (Pub. L. 115–141, Div. S, Title I, Sec. 101, 132 Stat. 1123 – 1126) amended the National Child Protection...
by Eric J. Ellman | Apr 26, 2023
In April 2022, officials from four federal agencies “jointly pledged…to uphold America’s commitment to the core principles of fairness, equality, and justice as emerging automated systems, including those sometimes marketed as ‘artificial intelligence’ or...
by Eric J. Ellman | Mar 2, 2023
In February 2023, the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice issued a report, Employment of State and Federal Prisoners Prior to Incarceration, 2016. The information used to create this report came from the DOJ’s Survey of Prison Inmates...
by Eric J. Ellman | Jan 27, 2023
In December 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics issued its 16th survey of criminal history information systems. The research was conducted for BJS by SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics. The...
