Why do we ask for race/ethnicity on background investigation request forms?
Because all of these women are Julie Jones.
Which one is applying for a job at your company? You may have seen them in person, but the person conducting the background investigation has not.
When obtaining a criminal record in North Carolina, for example, results often look like this:
| JONES,JULIE | HF01211988 | RALEIGH | NC | 910 | 11CR000000 | T | I | P | ||
| JONES,JULIE | AF01211988 | CARY | NC | 910 | 10CR000000 | F | P | |||
| JONES,JULIE | BF01211988 | APEX | NC | 910 | 09CR000000 | T | D | |||
| JONES,JULIE | WF01211988 | GARNER | NC | 910 | 08CR000000 | M | D |
There is no middle initial, and all have a date of birth that matches the applicant.
Is your applicant the one with the traffic violation or the pending felony?
Background investigation companies, including RMA, use race or ethnicity as one way to properly identify the subject of the investigation. Without this key piece of information, it is more difficult for investigators to accurately determine which records belong and which records do not belong to an individual.
It’s not discrimination – it’s differentiation.
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