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The Professional Background Screening Association (PBSA®) – a non-profit trade association representing the interests of the background screening industry – will hold its annual Mid-Year Legislative & Regulatory Conference in March 2025 in Arlington, Virginia. ClearStar – a founding and accredited member of the PBSA® – will exhibit and speak at the conference.
ClearStar Exhibiting at PBSA® 2025 Mid-Year Conference
ClearStar – a founding and accredited member of the Professional Background Screening Association (PBSA®) – will exhibit and speak at the PBSA® 2025 Mid-Year Legislative & Regulatory Conference taking place at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Virginia, from Sunday, March 23rd, 2025, to Tuesday, March 25th, 2025. ClearStar will be exhibiting in Booth 104.
ClearStar will exhibit its innovative ClearMD platform that ensures an effortless ordering experience for employers and a seamless, mobile-friendly process for candidates. Supported by an exceptional, dedicated service team, this integration empowers businesses to achieve fully compliant, accurate, and timely drug and occupational health screening results.
ClearStar will be represented at the PBSA® 2025 Mid-Year Legislative & Regulatory Conference by President of Medical Information Services Todd Shoulberg, Executive Vice President and General Counsel Nicolas Dufour, Senior Operations Control Analyst Tressa Fullard, and Customer Success Manager of Medical Information Services Jasmine Cook.
Todd Shoulberg provides direction and leadership to the daily operations of ClearStar’s Medical Review Office. He is responsible for keeping all drug testing clients in compliance with state, federal, and local regulations, and identifies new testing methods and products for clients to utilize in their drug testing programs.
Nicolas Dufour advises ClearStar’s management team on all legal matters, issues, and risks impacting the organization. He provides legal guidance, legal management, and operating standards related to business, state and federal laws, regulatory, and legal strategic matters. Nicolas has more than fifteen years of legal experience in the background screening industry.
Tressa Fullard focuses on ClearStar’s continued operational excellence and compliance while enhancing efficiency and the customer experience. In addition to this role, she serves as Chair of the PBSA® Volunteer Program Advisory Group, is on the conference planning committee for PBSA® Europe, and has received the FCRA Advanced Certificate from the PBSA®.
ClearStar Speaking at PBSA® 2025 Mid-Year Conference
Tressa Fullard will participate in a group discussion at the conference titled “Disrupt! To Provoke Screening Industry Thoughts And Ideas” in Arlington Salon 2 from 10:15 AM to 11:00 AM EDT on Monday, March 24th, 2025. The panel will share unique thoughts and ideas on a variety of topics touching business, compliance, operations, and the future of background screening.
The group discussion “is presented with the sole intention to get the audience to think outside of the current norms. Some content may gain gasps, and some items will leave room for plenty of debate. The presenters are not attempting to sell any ideas, but they hope to generate expanded thinking,” according to a description of the session on the event website.
ClearStar is Accredited by PBSA® for Background Screening
In November 2023, the PBSA® Background Screening Credentialing Council (BSCC) announced that ClearStar had successfully demonstrated continued compliance with the Background Screening Organization Accreditation Program (BSOAP) and was recognized as PBSA®-Accredited, an accreditation status that ClearStar has maintained since 2012.
“At ClearStar, we provide our clients with background screening solutions that are proven in more ways than one. Not only are they backed with three decades of experience and innovation, but they are also validated by our Professional Background Screening Association accreditation,” ClearStar Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mike Pritts stated in the announcement.
Since its inception, the PBSA® has maintained that there is a strong need for a cohesive industry standard and so created the BSOAP, which has become a widely recognized seal of achievement that brings national recognition to background screening organizations. Each PBSA® Accredited background screening organization must renew its accreditation every five years.
To become PBSA® Accredited, background screening organizations must pass a rigorous audit conducted by an independent auditing firm of its policies and procedures as they relate to six critical areas of Information Security, Legal and Compliance, Client Education, Researcher and Data Standards, Verification Services Standards, and Business Practices.
Founded as a non-profit trade association in 2003, the PBSA® was established to represent the interest of companies offering background screening services and to promote a high level of ethics and performance standards for the background screening industry. The PBSA® currently includes over 880 member companies. To learn more about the PBSA®, visit thepbsa.org.
ClearStar Offers “One Stop Shop” for Background Screening Solutions
ClearStar – a PBSA® Accredited background screening provider specializing in background checks, drug testing, and occupational health services – is a “one stop shop” that offers a variety of background screening solutions in a single convenient location to help empower employers to make informed and compliant hiring decisions. The solutions include:
- Background, Drug, Clinical, and Occupational Health Screening
- Criminal Record Searches at Federal, State, and County Levels
- Sex Offender Registry Searches
- Employment/Education Verifications
- Licenses and Credentialing
- Personal Reference Checks
- Motor Vehicle Record (MVR) Searches
- Social Media Screening
- Civil Record Searches
- Employment Credit Reports
- Employee Monitoring
- Contractor Screening
- Tenant Screening
- Global Searches in 230+ Countries
ClearStar has provided background screening solutions from its corporate offices in Alpharetta, Georgia, since 1995, and is celebrating the company’s 30th anniversary in 2025. ClearStar’s numerous certifications help ensure the privacy, security, and confidentiality of consumer data used during the background screening process. To learn more, contact ClearStar.
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Thomas Ahearn - Digital Content Editor
Thomas Ahearn is a Digital Content Editor at ClearStar, a leading Human Resources technology company specializing in background checks, drug testing, and occupational health screening. He writes about a variety of topics in the background screening industry including Artificial Intelligence (AI), "Ban the Box," class action lawsuits, credit reports, criminal records, drug testing, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), identity theft, privacy, social media screening, and workplace violence.
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