by By Rod M. Fliegel, William J. Simmons and Wendy Buckingham - Littler

A May 2021 court decision in California, called All of Us or None v. Hamrick, caused significant background check delays in some California county courts and left background check companies unable to report some criminal record search results at all. The gist of the decision was that background check companies could no longer verify key personal identifying information for criminal defendants in state court index searches commonly used for background checks, such as full date of birth, because the California Court of Appeal held that the information must be treated as private.