Fix Accurate Background Check Errors & Recover Money – All Cost-Free

Updated on February 2nd, 2023 Author: Sergei Lemberg

Want to know how to fix Accurate Background check errors and recover money? Accurate Background Inc is one of numerous employment background check agencies you’re likely to face during your job search. Find out who they are, what they do, and what rights you have under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)

What is Accurate Background?

Accurate Background promises fast and automated background checks, and boasts a client base that encompasses companies ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. Launched in 1997, Accurate Background began by scouring court records for other employment screening companies and later expanded into international screening, health screening, and drug testing. The company is based in Irvine, California, and counts Ross, Sephora, Cheesecake Factory, and Crate & Barrel among its clients.

The company provides virtually every type of screening and background check by using the applicant’s name, birth date and social security number including:

• Sex offender registry
• County, state, national, and federal criminal checks
• County and federal civil checks
• Global Watchlist Search
• Driving records
• National and international employment and education checks
• Personal and professional references
• Drug checks
• Credit checks
• Social Security number tracing

Accurate Background also offers new hire and post-employment screening. This includes identity and immigration status verifications, employee audits and monitoring, random drug testing, and risk and compliance checks. The company is accredited by the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS).

Were You Harmed By False Information or Errors In Your Accurate Background Report?

Whether you get hired or promoted often depends on the information learned from an employment background check. A background check can come in many shapes and sizes. It may be as simple as verifying your social security number. Or it may include a detailed report of your credit and criminal history, or even information gathered from interviews of your friends and neighbors about your character and reputation.

Whatever the scope of the background check, the FCRA sets strict standards for how employers and background check companies get consent for and conduct background checks, and what they can do with the information they find.

If a background check company like Accurate Background fails to meet those standards, the FCRA gives you rights.

Common Mistakes On Employee Background Checks:

Background checks are susceptible to errors. Individuals who handle public and private data about you can make mistakes and computer systems can also fail to to be accurate. Here are some of the most common causes for inaccurate info showing on your report:

1. Wrong or incomplete data in original documents
2. Typos such as number transposition
3. Copying, filing, and search mistakes
4. File corruption in computer system
5. Duplicate information
6. Outdated negative information
7. Mistaken identity
8. Identity theft

What are my Background Check Disclosure and Consent Rights?

A Summary of Your Rights Under the FCRA

You have a right to know if an employer will use information from a background check against you and an employer cannot obtain background check information without your express written consent.

A background check company cannot hand over your information to an employer unless the employer certifies that: (1) it has “clearly and conspicuously” disclosed to you in a separate document that it may obtain a background check; (2) you have authorized it to get the background check; and (3) it will provide you with advance notice of any adverse action based in any part on the background check report, a copy of the report, and a summary of your rights under the FCRA.

What if I get an adverse action notice from an employer after a background check?

If an employer takes “adverse action” against you by denying you a job based partly or completely on information in a background check report, the employer must give you notice of that fact. The adverse action notice must include the contact information for the background check company and an explanation of your rights to dispute the report.

Can criminal convictions appear on my background check after 7 years?

Yes, but a background check company must take reasonable steps to ensure its report is as accurate as possible. The FCRA also puts limits on the negative information a job screening report can include. A report cannot list civil suits, judgments, arrest records, paid tax liens, accounts in collection or most other negative information after 7 years, or bankruptcies after 10 years. It also cannot list expunged convictions. However misdemeanor or felony criminal convictions that go on record and are accurate can stay on your background check indefinitely.

What if I was deactivated or fired because of an accident and it wasn’t my fault?

You may have legal recourse now if you were fired because you were involved in a no fault car accident, thanks to a groundbreaking decision handed down by the United States Court for the Sixth Circuit. The court held that material omissions, such as not reporting the fault of an accident, can be interpreted as inaccurate information under the law.

Can I dispute a false disposition on my background check report?

If you don’t get a job because of information in a background check report, you are entitled to a copy of the report. You also have the right to dispute the report if it has errors or includes information it shouldn’t. If you dispute a report, the background check company must investigate and correct any errors within 30 days.

Can I Sue Accurate Background if my background report includes errors?

If you lost out on a job or promotion because a background check report included inaccurate or illegal information, you may be able to sue in federal court. If you sue and win, you may be entitled to your actual damages or statutory damages up to $1,000, plus punitive damages, attorneys’ fees, and costs.

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Actual Complaints Against Accurate Background

Hardworking people just like you who lost job opportunities due to an inaccurate or unfair Accurate Background employment background check report have already sued the company for FCRA violations. Justia lists at least 17 federal civil lawsuits against Accurate Background, including cases that allege violations of the FCRA due to improper employment screening reports.

For example, on February 15, 2018, a consumer sued Accurate Background in California in a case pending in the federal district court for the Northern District of California for violating the FCRA in connection with an employment background check and that he lost employment opportunities and suffered emotional distress, reputational harm and other damages. The complainant alleged that Amtrak offered him a job subject to a background check. Accurate Background prepared the background check but failed to use reasonable procedures to ensure the maximum accuracy possible of the report as the FCRA requires. According to the complainant, Accurate Background falsely listed a felony conviction (assault with a deadly weapon) on the complainant’s report when, in fact, the felony belonged to someone else with a similar name, but a different birth date and personal identifying information. The complainant immediately disputed the felony conviction and obtained confirmation from the local court that he had no criminal record and provided it to Accurate Background and Amtrak. Amtrak nevertheless rescinded the complainant’s job offer based on the inaccurate background check report.

This is just one of at least 8 federal civil FCRA lawsuits filed against Accurate Background between January 1, 2017 and March 15, 2018 alone. Most of those lawsuits allege that Accurate Background did not take reasonable steps to verify criminal background information and, as a result, falsely branded the complainants as convicted felons and caused them to lose job opportunities. Several complainants filed their lawsuits as class action complaints, on behalf of themselves and similarly situated people.

Consumer Complaints  

The BBB and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) have also received complaints alleging Accurate Background violated the FCRA in connection with employment background checks. The BBB gives Accurate Background an “F” – its lowest rating, based at least in part on the fact that Accurate Background failed to respond to any of the consumer complaints made to the BBB. The CFPB has received 49 complaints about Accurate Background since November 2014. Most of the complaints to the BBB and CFPB allege that Accurate Backgroundreports falsely listed felony convictions, included expunged, outdated, or incorrect information, or misidentified the subject of the report. Some complaints also allege that Accurate Background was not responsive or did not properly handle disputes about inaccurate information.

Actual Complaints Listed on the BBB website

“This past week, Accurate Background in Irvine, CA, has incorrectly reported a sex offender charge on my background check results to prospective employer. This is is resulting in loss of pay while I dispute this process with Accurate Background. To date, I have not received the results of this background check for my personal review and records. All I have is prospective employer contacting me via phone and informing me that this charge means I cannot work for the company (job offer rescinded). I recorded my completion and submittal of the background form and noted details like previous residences and other names used (which applies to myself) were never asked about on form that I completed.”

Contact Information

Accurate Background, Inc.
7515 Irvine Center Drive
Irvine, CA 92618
Phone Number: 800-216-8024

Website: https://www.accurate.com/

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About the Author:

Sergei Lemberg is an attorney focusing on consumer law, class actions related to automotive issues, and personal injury litigation. With nearly two decades of experience, his areas of practice include Lemon Law (vehicle defects), Debt Collection Harassment, TCPA (illegal robocalls and texts), Fair Credit Reporting Act, Overtime claims, Personal Injury cases, and Class Actions. He has consistently been recognized as the nation's "most active consumer attorney." In 2020, Mr. Lemberg represented Noah Duguid before the United States Supreme Court in the landmark case Duguid v. Facebook. He is also the author of "Defanging Debt Collectors," a guide that empowers consumers to fight back against debt collectors and prevail, as well as "Lemon Law 101: The Laws That Lemon Dealers Don't Want You to Know."

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