在雇用之前检查申请人的背景很重要，但如果他们在开始工作后犯罪怎么办？
总体而言，媒体对背景筛查的关注是就业前检查：您是否以及为什么应该进行这些检查，您应该进行哪些类型的检查，等等。虽然这些问题无可否认很重要，但它们忽略了筛查的另一个方面，这些方面可能同样重要：就业后背景调查，最常见的是持续犯罪监测的形式。
持续的犯罪监控就像它听起来的那样：一个持续筛选现有员工的过程，以确认该员工在您的犯罪背景政策下是否有继续就业的资格。因此，如果您要求员工在过去七年内没有被定罪以开始工作，那么您可以在该员工开始工作后定期或持续进行检查，以确认他仍然没有被定罪的暴力重罪.
虽然对每家公司都很重要，但那些保留率高的组织尤其需要持续的犯罪监控。如果您的公司仅在聘用前进行筛查并且保留率很高，那么您的一些员工可能已经 10 年没有进行筛查。
在这 10 年中可能发生的事情的可能性是无穷无尽的。也许您的会计部门的一名员工自从他开始工作以来就被判犯有信用欺诈罪。也许一名与孩子一起工作的员工被判犯有猥亵儿童罪。这些类型的员工可以在你发现他们被捕之前获得保释；如果这是他们的第一次犯罪，他们可以获得缓刑，即使是严重的定罪，也可以让他们继续为您工作。您最好的保护措施是定期检查您的员工，以确保他们达到与过去相同的标准。
问题是这不能随意完成。还有一些额外的考虑因素，其中最重要的是一项称为常青授权的项目。这是一种类似于申请人为了进行任何背景调查而签署的授权，但它被认为对不止一轮的检查有效。另一种选择是对您的员工进行年度背景调查，并让他们每年签署一份单独的授权书。无论哪种情况，您都应该咨询您的律师，以确保您的授权有效。
附带说明一下，在没有进行背景调查的时代，员工也可能受到影响。检查这些员工将是另一种形式的离职后筛查，但不属于持续犯罪监控的类别。但是，在这些情况下，重要的是您要查看您的选择，以确定您是否可以对这些员工进行背景调查。从逻辑上讲，如果业务需要对新员工进行检查，类似的检查可能适用于前员工。
Across the board, the media focus on background screening is on pre-employment checks: whether and why you should do them, which types of checks you should do, and so on. While these questions are undeniably important, they miss another whole aspect of screenings that can be equally important: post-employment background checks, most commonly seen in the form of ongoing criminal monitoring.
Ongoing criminal monitoring is exactly what it sounds like: a process by which you screen your current employees on an ongoing basis to confirm the employee’s continued eligibility for employment under your criminal background policy. So, if you require an employee to have had no violent felony convictions in the previous seven years in order to begin work, you then check on a periodic or ongoing basis after the employee has begun work to verify that he still has no violent felony convictions.
While important in every company, those organizations that have a good retention rate particularly need ongoing criminal monitoring. If your company only screens on a pre-employment basis and has a good retention rate, some of your employees may not have been screened for 10 years.
The possibilities of what could have happened in those 10 years are endless. Maybe an employee in your accounting department has been convicted of credit fraud since he started there. Maybe an employee who works with kids has been convicted of child molestation. These types of employees can get out on bail before you find out they were arrested; if it is their first offense, they can receive probation, even for serious convictions, that allow them to continue working for you. Your best protection is to check your employees periodically to make sure that they measure up to the same standards they used to.
The catch is that this can’t just be done willy-nilly. There are some additional considerations, among the most important of which is an item known as an evergreen authorization. This is an authorization similar to one that the applicant would sign in order for any background check to occur however it is considered valid for more than one round of checks. Another option would be to run annual background checks on your employees and have them sign a separate authorization each year. In either case, you should check with your lawyer to make sure that your authorization is valid.
