ChoicePoint(R) Honored With Inaugural Sue Weaver CAUSE Award

FLOWER MOUND, Texas, Dec. 11  /PRNewswire/ -- ChoicePoint today was honored with the inaugural Sue Weaver "Opening Doors for CAUSE in 2006" Award, designed to recognize companies for exemplary efforts to help make the world a safer, more secure place.

The Sue Weaver CAUSE was founded in 2004 with the mission of promoting "consumer awareness of unsafe service employment" (or, "CAUSE") by requiring background checks on all workers sent to peoples' homes.  The organization was founded after Sue Weaver was attacked and killed by a department store service contractor who had previously worked in her home in Orlando, Fla.  Her attacker was later found to be a twice-convicted sex offender on parole.

ChoicePoint, based in Alpharetta, Georgia, is a leading provider of background screening services to companies and non-profit organizations across the United States.  ChoicePoint is a leader in social contribution and, through its ChoicePoint Cares giving programs, donates millions of dollars in free and discounted technology to make the world a safer place through the positive power of information. From ensuring volunteers who work with children are not convicted criminals to helping locate missing and exploited children, ChoicePoint seeks out opportunities to make a difference with their unique technical capabilities.

"ChoicePoint has embraced The Sue Weaver CAUSE and has been a vital part in helping us to bring awareness and education to consumers and employers of the dangers of not knowing who you hire and the importance of criminal background checks on all service employees, contractors and sub-contractors hired to work in clients' homes," said Lucia Bone, Sue Weaver's sister and founder of the The Sue Weaver CAUSE. "We are grateful for the resources that ChoicePoint has offered CAUSE and for the many doors it has opened for us. With the support of ChoicePoint, CAUSE has brought more awareness to the dangers that come knocking on a national level."

"The Sue Weaver CAUSE is an organization that ChoicePoint has been extremely proud to be affiliated with," said Derek Smith, ChoicePoint chairman and CEO.  "By providing screening services including background checks for job candidates, current and potential employees and volunteers, we aim to help organizations make more informed decisions about who they hire to interact with and serve their customers.  It's an incredible honor to receive the inaugural Sue Weaver CAUSE award."

About Sue Weaver CAUSE

The Sue Weaver CAUSE, Consumer Awareness of Unsafe Service Employment is a 501 (c)(3) non profit organization that educates consumers and employers on the necessity of criminal background checks on service employees.  Visit http://www.sueweavercause.org/ or call 214-450-5812 for more information on CAUSE, to request a speaker, or to make a tax deductible donation. 

DATASOURCE: Sue Weaver CAUSE



CONTACT:  Lucia Bone of Sue Weaver CAUSE, [phone]



Web site:  http://www.choicepoint.com/

http://www.sueweavercause.org/

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