October 16, 2018

A Texas-based background screening company, RealPage, has agreed to pay the FTC $3 million to settle charges that it violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). According to the FTC, from about 2012 to 2017, RealPage used overly broad criteria and did not do enough to filter out non-responsive hits that came up in criminal record searches, causing countless people to be wrongly associated with criminal records and possibly turned down for housing and other opportunities. FTC