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HNT -- Mar 6 -- The Senate budget committee Monday advanced a proposal to require online dating services to tell customers whether criminal background screenings are done of members using the site to look for dates. The bill now heads to the Senate floor, over the objections of a group of online companies whose lobbyists said the proposal won't prevent child predators and could soothe people into thinking they're safer online than they are. Steve DelBianco, executive director of NetChoice, a coalition of e-commerce companies and tradegroups, such as America Online,
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In a recent online survey of DBSA constituents, 56 percent of the respondents said they would support adding the names of people with involuntary hospitalizations to the background check database. Of those surveyed, more than 80 percent had a mental illness diagnosis - most with bipolar disorder or depression.
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Sacramento --- "...Under current California law, participants in the In-Home Social Services (IHSS) caregiver program for low income patients must be cleared through a Department of Justice background check. Unfortunately those caught in the middle, people who don’t qualify for IHSS, but cannot afford to use a private agency, lack the legal authorization to request a background check on a potential in-home caregiver..."
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