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Background checks

Rap back

A "rap back" or "hit notice" program will inform an employer or other designated entity when an individual who has undergone a fingerprint-based background check, and whose fingerprints are retained by a criminal history repository after the check, is subsequently arrested. His or her fingerprints, obtained after the arrest, are matched against a database that contains the fingerprints that were initially submitted. Employers are then notified of the individual's arrest. Employers pay a fee for the service in some states; other states provide the service for free.
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Background Checks for Firearm Transfers, 2002

ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 A.M. EDT Bureau of Justice Statistics
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2003 Contact: Stu Smith
  202/307-0784

BACKGROUND CHECKS BLOCKED 136,000 GUN PURCHASES IN 2002

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The National Instant Criminal Background Check System last year rejected 136,000 applications from among the more than 7.8 million applications to buy or transfer a firearm, a 1.7 percent rejection rate, the Justice Department's...

National Criminal History Improvement Program 

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                          BJS
JULY 12, 1995                         202-307-0703


JUSTICE DEPARTMENT MAKES FIRST AWARDS UNDER 
$88 MILLION PROGRAM TO IMPROVE 
STATE CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD SYSTEMS


     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Twelve states will
receive a total of more than $20 million to
improve their criminal history records systems as
part of the first awards made under the $88
million National Criminal History Improvement
Program...

National Criminal History Improvement Program 

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                          BJS
SEPTEMBER 11, 1995                    202-307-0703

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES 18 MORE GRANTS
FOR IMPROVEMENT OF CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORDS


     SEBASCO, MAINE -- Eighteen states, led by
Florida, Texas, and New Mexico, will receive about
$27 million under the $88 million National
Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP) to
upgrade their criminal history records systems.  
The grants will help states implement the...

National Criminal History Improvement Program Advanced State Award Program Grants 

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                          BJS
MAY 22, 1996                          202-307-0703

18 STATES WILL SHARE OVER $3.7 MILLION 
IN JUSTICE DEPARTMENT GRANTS TO DEVELOP
ADVANCED BACKGROUND CHECK SYSTEMS

     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As a result of grants
awarded by the Justice Department today to
California, New York, Florida and 15 other states,
dangerous individuals -- such as persons subject
to domestic violence protective orders or...