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[Thomas Beckett <thomas AT tbeckett.com>]

The credit bureaus have immunity by federal law from liability for 
screwing up information they report about you.  But a mere investigative 
service would be subject to claims for defamation, unfair trade 
practices, and so forth, for doing what ADP did to you.

TaB

Kristen James Eberlein wrote:
> 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
>
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Thomas A. Beckett, JD & MBA              Business Law and Consulting
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