DISCLOSURE
In considering you for employment, services, or volunteering; or if you are employed, in considering you for subsequent promotion, assignment, reassignment, retention, or discipline, Partners in Housing, may request and rely upon one or more consumer reports or investigative consumer reports about you that we obtain from an agency, such as Elite Investigations.
For explanation purposes:
- Elite Investigations will utilize a variety of information it deems appropriate, which include, but are not limited to; current & former employers, criminal records, department of motor vehicle records, financial records to include credit reporting agencies, education records, both State & Federal licensing & sanctioning authorities, personal & professional references, an interview
with the applicant by our office if so requested. I, agree, authorize and consent to the release & disclosure of any and all information including, but not limited to ____________, and Elite Investigations
- a “consumer report” is a written, oral or other communication of any information by a consumer reporting agency bearing on your credit worthiness, credit standing, credit capacity, character,
general reputation, personal characteristics, or mode of living which is used or expected to be used or collected in whole or in part for the purpose of serving as a factor in making an employment-related decision about you. Such information may include, for example, credit information,
criminal history reports, or motor vehicle records; and
- an “investigative consumer report” is a consumer report in which information on your character, general reputation, personal characteristics, or mode of living is obtained through personal interviews with your prior employers, neighbors, friends, or associates, or with others who may
have knowledge concerning any such items of information. In the event an investigative consumer report is requested about you, you are entitled to additional disclosures regarding the nature and scope of the investigation requested, as well as a written summary of your rights under the
Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”).
Under the FCRA, before Partners in Housing can obtain a consumer report or investigative consumer report about you for employment purposes, we must have your written authorization. Before we take adverse action on the basis, in whole or in part, of information in that report, you will be provided a copy of that report, the name, and contact information of the consumer reporting agency, and a summary of your rights under the FCRA.