Finger print background check vs SS nation wide county background check?

[smutlydog]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? TX

The battle for Rideshare acceptance is brewing in my City. Uber and Lyft say no to fingerprinting its drivers. Why are cities so obsessed with the finger-print method? What makes that system better?

 

[Zigner]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? TX

The battle for Rideshare acceptance is brewing in my City. Uber and Lyft say no to fingerprinting its drivers. Why are cities so obsessed with the finger-print method? What makes that system better?

Yours is not a legal question.

 

[Proserpina]

Yours is not a legal question.

So, what flavour of tea would you prefer? I'm on pouring duty

 

[Zigner]

So, what flavour of tea would you prefer? I'm on pouring duty

It's going to need to be a lot stronger than tea today

 

[Proserpina]

It's going to need to be a lot stronger than tea today

One Long Island Iced Tea (PNW version) coming right up ...

 

[FlyingRon]

Identity.

The average driver's license issuance isn't sufficiently rigorous to prove that the person who holds it is the same as the one whose criminal records you're trying to match.

 

[Just Blue]

One Long Island Iced Tea (PNW version) coming right up ...

Oh yeah!! Can I have one? Please??

 

[quincy]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? TX

The battle for Rideshare acceptance is brewing in my City. Uber and Lyft say no to fingerprinting its drivers. Why are cities so obsessed with the finger-print method? What makes that system better?

Fingerprint checks are a better way to verify the identity of the drivers. Fingerprint checks will flag more drivers with criminal histories than standard background checks do.

A fingerprint check on one Uber driver in Texas, for example, would have revealed his various and assorted fake identities that did not show up on a simple background check, and his criminal history did not show up because he was using one of his "clean" identities with one of his many social security numbers. A fingerprint check could have prevented his employment - and his subsequent rape of a passenger.

Nothing however - not a background check or a fingerprint check - can fully ensure that the driver you hire to transport you from one location to another is a safe or trustworthy driver. You are only assured that as far as can be reasonably determined through channels available that the taxi driver who has had a fingerprint check has no prior criminal history. You do not have this same level of assurance with the Uber or Lyft driver.

That said, Uber driver Jason Brian Dalton from Kalamazoo, Michigan, passed an Uber background check and he did, in fact, have no prior criminal record. Even a fingerprint check would have revealed nothing that would have precluded his employment. He still shot 8 people, 6 of them fatally.

Crazy people exist everywhere, and sometimes this craziness does not show up until it is too late to do anything about it.