Posted on 10/13/2009 8:46:26 PM PDT by Saije
The head of the Census Bureau said Tuesday that the number of convicted criminals who were hired to check home addresses this summer is probably fewer than the 200 estimated by the Government Accountability Office.
Robert Groves said the bureau is trying to determine whether it is feasible to require a second security check on job candidates whose fingerprints cannot be read the first time they are run through the FBI database. The bureau is spending $100 million this year checking fingerprints, the first time it has done so for temporary workers.
Last week, the GAO said it estimated that more than 200 temporary employees with unreadable prints might have criminal records that should have disqualified them from being hired.
Groves said people whose prints are hard to decipher tend to be older workers whose ridges have worn down with age or manual workers whose jobs have made their prints less sharp. The average age of temporary census workers with unreadable prints was 63 for men and 55 for women.
"That goes in the direction of suggesting the count of 200 may be an overestimate," Groves said.
The GAO report was based on a Census Bureau internal evaluation of its fingerprinting program. More than 1 million people applied for temporary jobs. About 16 percent did not pass the initial screening of an FBI check on their names for a variety of reasons, including criminal backgrounds.
People who passed the name check were then asked to submit fingerprints. FBI fingerprint checks then eliminated 1 percent, or almost 1,800 people; of those, about 750 were fired because they had committed serious crimes such as rape, manslaughter and child abuse.
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NO they can’t. But they don’t want to either.
I said all along, not one of them will get inside my home, ever. No telling what they might see and want to come back and take.
All they want is your DNA.
Seems that as someone who holds state licenses, I have to PAY FOR MY OWN finger prints, and the fees to process them.
I need to do this for every state that I have a license in. The states and my local PD make a bundle off of me.
If they were unreadable, I have no doubt the states would require another set.
Well darn it, if the background check doesn’t work because of a lousy print image, DON’T PUT THE PERSON ON THE JOB until they get a good image!
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