From a dog walker to a date to a babysitter, many Americans look for reassurance that the person they are letting into their homes or lives is who they say they are. To help find that reassurance, ...

NY's system checks if someone buying a weapon is a convicted felon or using a controlled substance among other criteria. The ...

By the end of 2021, the state had sent more than 332,000 mental health records — the sixth-highest number in the country — to the national background check system, according to FBI data. Unlike adult ...

Governor Maura Healey’s administration refused to release records that could detail when, and to whom, she delivered an order last year to conduct systemwide background checks in the state’s emergency ...

Years after a sloppy Army investigation slapped soldiers with false criminal records and derailed his career, the officer who led the fight to clear service members' names has finally received his ...

AUSTIN, Texas (TEXAS TRIBUNE)-In the spring of 2009, Elliott Naishtat persuaded his colleagues in the Texas Legislature to pass a bill that he believed would require the state to report court-ordered ...

Lawmakers tried in 2009 to require that the state report all court-ordered mental health hospitalizations to a federal gun background check system. Juveniles have been left out. In the spring of 2009, ...