PA Bill Number: SB812
Title: In electronic voting systems, further providing for examination and approval of electronic voting systems by the Secretary of the Commonwealth and ...
Description: In electronic voting systems, further providing for examination and approval of electronic voting systems by the Secretary of the Commonwealth and . ...
Last Action: Laid on the table (Pursuant to Senate Rule 9)
Last Action Date: Jul 16, 2025
Background Checks are the answer, right? Not so fast. :: 05/10/2014
"Pittsburgh police on Thursday terminated a recruit who passed a background check even though he was wanted in Massachusetts on a decade-old felony arrest warrant.
Elijah Hill, 36, of Crafton Heights said he moved to Pittsburgh to begin 11 months of training as a police recruit on March 17, but when he tried to buy his service weapon two weeks later, a gun store employee ran a state-required background check and told him he was denied. He said he immediately told a sergeant at the training academy, who found the 2002 arrest warrant filed in Essex County. Hill said he didn't know about the warrant."
We'vebeen trying to explain why background checks are only as good as the information that is on record.
http://triblive.com/news/allegheny/6081281-74/hill-police-recruit#axzz31EKLQzf8
