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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
The FBI's Rap Back program is quietly transforming the way employers conduct background checks. While routine background checks provide employers with a one-time "snapshot" of their employee's past criminal history, employers enrolled in federal and state Rap Back programs receive ongoing, real-time notifications and updates about their employees' run-ins with law enforcement, including arrests at protests and charges that do not end up in convictions. ("Rap" is an acronym for Record of Arrest and Prosecution; "Back" is short for background.) Testifying before Congress about the program in 2015, FBI Director James Comey explained some limits of regular background checks: "People are clean when they first go in, then they get in trouble five years down the road [and] never tell the daycare about this."
A majority of states already have their own databases that they use for background checks and have accessed in-state Rap Back programs since at least 2007; states and agencies now partnering with the federal government will be entering their data into the FBI's Next Generation Identification (NGI) database. The NGI database, widely considered to be the world's largest biometric database, allows federal and state agencies to search more than 70 million civil fingerprints submitted for background checks alongside over 50 million prints submitted for criminal purposes. In July 2015, Utah became the first state to join the federal Rap Back program. Last April, aviation workers at Dallas-Ft. Worth Airport and Boston Logan International Airport began participating in a federal Rap Back pilot program for aviation employees. Two weeks ago, Texas submitted its first request to the federal criminal Rap Back system.
Rap Back has been advertised by the FBI as an effort to target individuals in "positions of trust," such as those who work with children, the elderly, and the disabled. According to a Rap Back spokesperson, however, there are no formal limits as to "which populations of individuals can be enrolled in the Rap Back Service." Civil liberties advocates fear that under Trump's administration the program will grow with serious consequences for employee privacy, accuracy of records, and fair employment practices.
Rap Back Privacy Impact Assessment
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(Score: 1) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Wednesday February 08 2017, @08:00PM
The way they check for cash theft is by counting the cash drawer before and after shift. If the change does not match receipts within some small amount (like $3 after $10,000 in transactions); there is a problem.
It is complicated if more than one person shares a cash drawer, but the principle is the same.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday February 08 2017, @08:24PM
Yeah we did that at the supermarket I worked at as a starving student like 30 years ago.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 08 2017, @08:57PM
Thats the way the grocery store I worked at was run 15 years ago.
Drawer came out with exactly 200 dollars, periodically the book keeper would come and pull some cash from it, and then at the end of the night the book keeper counted the drawer down. You did not allow any one else to run on your drawer without explicit instructions from the manager, and in that situation usually it was the manager running it.
For busy days (think thanksgiving or christmas) they would open an extra register with what they called the managers drawer. They would move people on and off that one as needed. Depending on the lines sometimes even someone from the bakery or meat department.
Most peoples drawers were within a few dollars at the end of the night. The managers drawer was always $50+ off. The store did not have security cameras so no one ever got in trouble for that. But woe to the cashier that was short on a drawer only they worked on. If its not crazy (say 10 bucks) it was no big deal. If you had $10-$50 off you would prob get a write up for first offence, and firing for second. Anything more then that either you cough up the money, cough up a reasonable explanation, or be prepared for a firing/cops depending on if the manager liked you.