About 93 percent of employers conduct criminal background checks on some applicants, but not all of them are using reputable agencies to do it, according to a recent report from the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC). 

The report, Broken Records: How Errors by Criminal Background Checking Companies Harm Workers and Businesses, shows that there has been a rapid increase in criminal background checks for job applicants by employers since Sept. 11, 2001, but many of those reports are filled with erroneous information.