I will apologize up front if I missed the answers to my questions in the short time I had to look over the policy and the Background Screening companies' website. Having worked for a contract employment services company for eight years and having handled hundreds of criminal background checks for companies, I had the following questions:

1) How many years does the background check screen for (it makes mention of filling out information from the age of 18). Most companies only conduct background checks for 5-7 years back, seven being the norm.

2) Is this a Federal, State or County, Federal & State & County, State & County, etc? I know from experience that a State background check will not always uncover convictions at the county level in certain cases.

3) It says that the cost is $17 per screen. It also talks about additional costs being incurred in certain situations. If a company is doing criminal checks down to the county level, and the person being screened has had multiple addresses in multiple states and/or counties, usually the cost can increase quite a bit.

Just some thoughts until I have time to fully absorb the policy and do more research on the company doing the screening. I think this is a good step for the Kids Federation to take.