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Background Check Questioned for Ex-DE Principal

Jason Morris — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:50:09 +0000

Background Check Questioned for Ex-DE Principal

GEORGETOWN, Del. (AP)- Two Maryland school administrators say they weren’t called about a former employee who was later hired as a Sussex County principal and is now imprisoned for a sexual relationship with a student.

Court records show 39-year-old Dana Goodman was ordered at sentencing not to have contact with a Delaware victim and two other females, including a former student at one of two Maryland schools that employed him.

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Background Check for the "Best Job in the World"

Jason Morris — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:28:58 +0000

: Worlds best job

In the past 48 hours I have witnessed the best Public Relations campaign I have ever seen. I guess I will further enhance their ‘publicity stunt’ by writing about it myself! I have not only seen this as a top story on local and national news but also sites such as Digg, Google, Yahoo, Facebook and many others. The campaign is doing so well that it actually crashed their website. Does this job application mention a background check? I don’t know, I can’t even get into the site because too many people are hitting it at once. Does it even matter if someone has a criminal record if they are on a deserted island? I’ll let our readers decide!

Demand for “best job in the world” crashes website

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) – The chance to be the caretaker of a tiny tropical island in Australia has sparked so much interest around the world that a rush of applications crashed the website advertising the post.

The job, which offers a salary of $105,000 to spend six months on the Great Barrier Reef island of Hamilton, has been inundated with hundreds of thousands of prospective candidates.

An official from the state of Queensland, which is offering the position, said the job was created as an antidote to the global economic slump and was being advertised in 18 countries including the United States and China.

Local media said technicians had to restore the website (www.islandreefjob.com) after it could not cope with the volume of interest and crashed for several hours. Some sections are still not up and running.

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Thousands of Texas nurses have arrest records

Jason Morris — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:29:52 +0000

Dallas WFAA-TV News did a great job on this story. In my opinion the Texas Board of Nursing has a lot of explaining to do. The fact that it will take another four years to complete background checks on nurses is incomprehensible. If the system is broken change the system. If the board is mandated to use this process, put another process in place while you are waiting. Hiring an employment screening firm to keep people safe is the best course of action here. The board is putting millions of patients at risk by negligently allowing some of these criminals into the workplace.

Thousands of Texas nurses have arrest records

11:23 AM CDT on Thursday, May 8, 2008

By JASON WHITELY / WFAA-TV

DALLAS – Few times in history has nursing become such a lucrative career.

“A good nursing supervisor, a manager, can make more than $100,000 a year in some cases,” said Devon Herrick, Senior Fellow, National Center for Policy Analysis.

Salaries spiked because of a shortage in the industry. But among the hardworking dedicated nurses are some with questionable backgrounds.

News 8 compared names and dates of births of every currently licensed nurse against the Texas Department of Public Safety criminal database.

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