Louisiana

Criminal Records, Background Checks, Testing

Know Your Rights

• About Drug and Alcohol Testing On The Job

  When your employer can make you take a test, when you have the right to refuse, and when you have to pay for tests. Read More

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  Louisiana Employment Law Task Force

• About Employment Background Checks

  Most potential employers check your criminal, credit and other history. Read More

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  Southeast Louisiana Legal Services (New Orleans office)

• Employment Background Checks: A Jobseeker's Guide

  Questions and answers from this organization about background checks. Content Detail

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  Privacy Rights Clearinghouse

• Expungement: Basic Information and Online Forms

  Here is an information guide, which has a link to a computer program you can use to create basic court forms for some types of Expungement requests. The guide is called a "LibGuide" (short for Library Guide or Librarian Guide) because it also can help librarians help other people. The LibGuide has general information plus a link to a computer program a person can use to create basic court forms for some types of expungement requests. Content Detail

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  Southeast Louisiana Legal Services

• Orleans Parish Criminal District Court Help Desk (Expungement information from the Justice and Accountability Center)

  From the center's web site: On the second Friday of every month JAC staffs a Help Desk in the Court for individuals interested in expungements. This desk will be available through December and may start again in February 2013. If you have paperwork, please bring it with you. Ground Floor in the Jury Overflow Room (Follow Signs) Please do not bring cell phones or weapons into the Courthouse. Content Detail

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  Justice & Accountability Center of Louisiana