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16 September 2023

Georgia

State Background Check

NCS makes hiring easy for our Georgia customers! Whether you work in manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, retail, construction, hospitality, agriculture or a different industry, background checks are a critical part of the hiring process.

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Restrictions on Criminal Record Reporting

Since state background checks involve accessing a host of sensitive personal information about a candidate, a number of local, state, and federal regulations apply to ensure fair hiring practices. 

Georgia

 

Accessing Arrest and Conviction Records

In Georgia, it is legal for all private and most public employers to conduct inquiries about an applicant’s criminal history as part of the pre-employment background screening process; this includes reviewing conviction records. As we’ll explore, the state and a handful of counties have enacted limited ban-the-box laws, which must be considered to remain compliant when conducting background screening in certain jurisdictions. NCS makes reading reports easy. Our criminal background checks report convictions and serious pending cases that belong to your applicant.

Employers are not allowed to ask about or consider arrest records that have been expunged, pertain to charges that have been dropped or dismissed or did not lead to conviction, may not access sealed records, or require candidates to disclose details regarding arrests or convictions that were expunged from their criminal record. In fact, employers are required to specifically inform candidates that they are under no obligation to share any information regarding expunged charges.

Georgia laws require employers to follow several steps for notifying candidates if their criminal histories lead to adverse hiring decisions. This law follows the Fair Credit Reporting Act, which all employers must follow nationwide.

 

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Criminal History

Our services have you covered with comprehensive, affordable pre-employment screening services. Choose one of our featured criminal history packages and add on any of the optional individual services.

For our Georgia customers, we highly recommend using one of our featured packages for a comprehensive background check:

  • Essential
  • Enhanced
  • Expanded
  • Motor Vehicle Reports
  • Employment Credit Reports
  • Education Verification
  • Employment Verification
  • And much more

Volunteer and Tenant Screening packages are also available. 

We now offer Continuous Monitoring, which is used to stay on top of applicant's criminal records after they have been hired. New arrests, pending cases, and convictions will be reported. Read more on Continuous Monitoring here! If an employer chooses to review and weigh arrest records in a hiring decision, they must thoughtfully consider EEOC recommendations, as well as anti-discrimination guidelines presented by the FCRA and in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. When a conviction record leads to the disqualification of a candidate for a position, this should be documented at each stage of the review/hiring process and be based on the relevancy of a conviction to the responsibilities of the job itself.

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  • Charge
  • Charge degree (example: misdemeanor or felony)
  • Charge date
  • Filing date
  • Disposition
  • Disposition date
  • County where the offense took place
  • Sentence

National Crime Search reports all convictions within 7 years.

 

 

Drug Screening

With a few easy steps, your employees can schedule their drug screen at a collection site they choose at a time that is convenient for them. DOT testing is also available.

 

 

Electronic Form I-9 & E-Verify Management

NCS can help you comply with the law with our easy-to-use system that guides and stores new hire Form I-9s online and returns E-Verify results instantly.

 

 

Ban the Box Policies – Municipal and County 

Georgia has enacted several laws and ordinances – both statewide and jurisdictional – that ban employers from asking applicants about their criminal history on job applications. In February 2015, the governor signed an executive order banning the box from all state employment applications. Similar legislation that only applies to government jobs followed in several cities and counties throughout the state.

They include: Albany, Atlanta, Augusta, Chatham County, Cherokee County, Cobb County, Columbus, Dekalb County, Dougherty County, Fulton County, Macon-Bibb County, Muscogee County, and Richmond County.

In the cities of Augusta and Columbus, employers are required to wait until they have made a conditional offer of employment to run a background check.

Since the extent of these county ban the box regulations vary on a case-by-case basis, it’s important for public employers to stay aware of the distinctions that apply within their jurisdiction.

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