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FOR
RELEASE:
McDonald’s
Hires Convicted Sex Offenders. Child
Advocacy Organization calls for Nationwide Boycott. Jody Gorran, founder and president of the NFPCSA, and also known as “Mr. Background Check”, said “It is absolutely unconscionable for an organization such as McDonald’s, which holds itself out to the public as a safe, child-friendly environment, to allow restaurants in their system to knowingly or unknowingly hire convicted sex offenders to work in such close contact with children who come in either as customers or as fellow employees!” Gorran contends that retrospective studies of adults suggest that 1 of 3 girls and 1 of 6 boys will be subjected to some form of sexual abuse by age 18. These studies further indicate that 46% of child molesters are non-family members who are known to their victims. The NFPCSA reveals that sexual predators are generally unrecognizable to the community and parents of children. Child molesters who are known to their victims are frequently trusted adults in the community, like teachers, scoutmasters, coaches, day care workers, volunteers and employees of other youth serving organizations, clergy, friends of the family, and neighbors. These are the people with whom we entrust our children on a daily basis. Gorran believes the odds are very good that there are volunteers and employees in your community sexually molesting your children or your child's friends. Why does he believe this? "Because most child victims do not tell," says Gorran. “That’s why a child molester can have as many as 150 victims before he’s ever caught. Unlike a bank robbery, where everyone knows that a crime has been committed, because most child victims do not tell, no one else knows that there has been a crime,” Gorran explained. “That’s why it is so important that organizations that provide services to children do in-depth background checks of their employees and volunteers, preferably using fingerprint checks through the FBI, whether it’s the local McDonald’s, the local Little League, or the local Boy Scouts”, says Gorran. For further information on the NFPCSA, child sexual abuse and doing fingerprint-based national criminal history record checks through the FBI, visit www.fbifingerprintcheck.com and www.mrbackgroundcheck.orgLatest Data on Fingerprint Background
Checks Testimony of Michael D. Kirkpatrick, Assistant Director in
Charge, Criminal Justice Information Services Division, FBI on “So, what is the benefit of conducting civil (non-criminal justice) fingerprint checks? Our statistics show an annual hit rate of 12 percent. This equates to approximately 900,000 checks per year being identified to individuals with existing criminal records. In addition to the fingerprint check, all civil submissions undergo a name-based search of the subject against the wanted person file and the terrorist watch list located within the national crime information center” Testimony of David R. Loesch,
Assistant Director in Charge, criminal Justice Information Services division,
FBI on “Of greatest importance, we determined that some 11.7 percent of the hits reflected entirely different names than those listed on the applicants’ criminal history records and were only identified because of the fingerprint submissions. Hence, the criminal history records of these persons—whom we deemed intentionally provided false names to evade detection of their records—would have been missed entirely during their background examination had the check been name-based. These intentionally misleading applicants had prior convictions ranging from assault to drug sales and were only detected because of positive, fingerprint-based identification.” According to the FBI, over 1% of the 47 million individuals in the FBI criminal database have used over 100 aliases and false Social Security numbers. In July 2002, a convicted pedophile in According to the FBI, of 100 non-criminal justice applicants (again, those being screened for employment or volunteer purposes), 12 will have criminal records. Of these 12 with criminal records, 3 will show conviction for felonies while as many as 8 will show arrests for potentially disqualifying crimes and felonies without final adjudication information. Criminal background checks incomplete How convicted felons can slip through safety net • Holes in the system By Bob Sullivan, Technology correspondent MSNBC Is there a felon in the next cubicle? What about in your child's after school athletic league? Employers and volunteer organizations are increasingly turning to national commercial database searches provided by private firms to ferret out potential convicts from their ranks. The searches are quick, inexpensive, and promise nationwide coverage -- in theory, preventing convicted felons from moving away from a checkered past. But experts say the nationwide tallies are often full of holes, and contain as few as 70 percent of all felony conviction records, leading in turn to a false sense of security. Spotty participation by the nation's 3,100 county courts, along with a hodgepodge of data formats, make national crime databases vastly incomplete, said Rhonda Taylor, CEO of Intellisense Corp., a Bothell, Wash.-based boutique background check firm. "We've done tests, and the national databases have a 41 percent error rate," she said. "(There is) a glaring issue related to a false sense of security if that information is relied upon with no other investigative tools." The closest thing to a panacea would be a fingerprint
search conducted by organizations directly through state law enforcement
offices and the FBI's master criminal fingerprint file. Last year, the FBI
assistant director Michael D. Kirkpatrick told Congress that the agency's file
contained arrest records on 47 million people, virtually everyone who's been
arrested for a crime in the Fingerprints also permit more accurate searches, as they remove the possibility of a candidate escaping a record by lying about their name, birthday, or prior residence.
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