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Georgia ·
A six-figure job offer. Gone after a disputed background report.
A single mother said incorrect employment information cost her the job. The bad report hit immediately.
Back homeWrong record.
Wrong record.
Real damage.
Lost jobs. Denied housing. Ruined reputations. People who paid for someone else’s record.
10 reports. Keep scrolling ↓
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Oregon ·
The crimes were someone else’s. The housing denial was hers.
Tenant screening matched an applicant to criminal records from other states and shut her out of a home.
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Arizona ·
A dad was blocked from his daughter’s school over the wrong record.
A visitor-screening system confused him with a sex offender. The school later cleared him after the mismatch was investigated.
Too wild to be true?
12 quick rounds. Real or made up? See what catches you.
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United States ·
Veterans listed as criminals. Without an arrest.
Military database entries followed people into civilian life and put jobs and other opportunities at risk.
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Illinois ·
His brother’s crime. His name. His life wrecked.
A false sex-offender listing cost a foster father his job and home.
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Georgia ·
His conviction was overturned. The database never got the message.
A missing update left a wrongfully convicted Georgia man’s record uncleared, and blocked him from working at the polls.
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California ·
A teacher was removed for someone else’s DUI.
Her fingerprints showed no criminal history. A name-based mix-up still pulled Jodi Smith out of class.
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Louisiana ·
A stranger’s criminal history almost destroyed his nonprofit.
A mistaken identity in a background report threatened a Louisiana nonprofit leader’s reputation and fundraising drive.
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Missouri ·
A decades-old record error kept closing doors.
A charge reduced to a misdemeanor still showed up as a felony and kept blocking jobs and housing for a Missouri woman.
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Minnesota ·
His twin had the record. He got the rejections.
An innocent applicant kept losing jobs when background checks returned his brother’s criminal history, even after the state confirmed the mistake.
Know what your report says.
See your own background report before a mistake gets between you and your next opportunity.