Information security officer left his job quietly and quickly a few weeks ago. He was one of the more proactive and effective security officers in the more than 20 agencies in our government organization. HR director from this particular agency received a call from a county probation officer who said that one of his probationers was employed and had been lying to him. Background checks won’t necessarily eliminate fraud or ethically challenged employees, but the process might lead us to ask some hard questions before actually hiring a person, or at least give us some insight into his prior work or personal history.”]