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Claims Now that Bozeman Background Checks Were Compulsory

Not long ago I posed a blog article about Bozeman Montana joining a long list of other municipal agencies in experiencing mishaps in its background checks for employment candidates.   At the time city commissioners claimed that the request applicants present their email and login codes for their social networking sites was voluntary.

Now, a recent report that resulted in the study of the Bozeman situation, claims that the social networking background checks, etc. were compulsory.    The city will hold a public hearing on the report, this month.

Whether the city was overzealous in attempting to hire the best employment candidates or intrusive, regarding the personal lives of its job candidates, it s a matter for debate.   But this is one more controversy in the ongoing series of controversies affecting state and city agencies, and municipal services, regarding their background checking policies with respect to recruiting new employees.   On a broad scale,  this will be awhile before this issue is finally ironed out.

By Gordon Basichis

Gordon Basichis is the Co-Founder of Corra Group, specializing in pre-employment background checks and corporate research. He has been a marketing and media executive and has worked in the entertainment industry, the financial, health care and technology sectors. He is the author of the best selling Beautiful Bad Girl, The Vicki Morgan Story, a non-fiction novel that helped define exotic sexuality in the late twentieth century. He is the author of the Constant Travellers and has recently completed a new book, The Guys Who Spied for China, dealing with Chinese Espionage in the United States. He has been a journalist for several newspapers and is a screenwriter and producer.