Finger Print Compromise from Maryland. The Nuts & Bolts from Legislators & Regulators.

The Legislative standard: No finger print requirement for ride share, if ride share comapnies could shoe regulators that their background checks were just as effective.

The regulators respond with: Increased safety measures and reporting requirements for ride share companies, such as:

• Annual background checks on all drivers

• Auditing and accrediting by an arm of the National Association of Professional Background Screeners

• Alerting regulators to any changes to their background check process.

• Annual reports to regulators that include “information on safety-related complaints, changes to internal background check processes, driver deactivations and the total number of active drivers.”

What does the regulator action mean? Did they agree that ride share background checks were just as good? Yes, regulators noted that ” neither fingerprinting-based nor commercial background checks are completely comprehensive and accurate.”

Baltimore Sun | Maryland regulators won’t force Uber, Lyft to conduct fingerprint-based background checks