Rising Demands Jam Utah's Criminal Background Check Process

ksl.com - Rising Demands Jam Utah's Criminal Background Check Process: "Utah law requires security guards to be licensed by the state, but getting that approval increasingly takes more time.

The reason: Guards must get in line with employers, landlords, public agencies and other entities trying to ensure they're not getting tangled up with crooks. 'The sky's the limit in the post 9-11 world,' said Ed McConkie, director of Utah's Bureau of Criminal Identification, the state agency charged with conducting the checks. 'Everybody wants to know everything about everyone,' he said.

The bureau passed a milestone in November. 'We now get more criminal history requests from non-criminal entities,' McConkie said. 'It demonstrates the change in society's needs.'"