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[Kristen James Eberlein <keberlein AT pobox.com>]

Does anyone on this list have any experience in getting the databases queried by background-check companies corrected?

Here's the situation. A pre-employment check performed by a company named ADP reported that I had committed two misdemeanors in Durham County. In reality -- confirmed by the clerks at the Durham County Courthouse -- both offenses were traffic citations for an expired registration card/tag, not misdemeanors.

I have filed a dispute with the background-check company, obviously, but am wondering what else I can do about this. If a database queried by ADP has incorrect information about me (and probably other NC residents ...), I'd like to get it corrected. And I'd love to find out more information about just who are the data brokers that purchase this information from Durham County.

Kristen James Eberlein