1985 – CMKA provides background checks as part of theft investigations.

July 2009- Validity introduces new innovative technology with their eJobApp and FCRA Compliance Manager

August 2008 – Validity acquired Fairfield Information Services, a Lancaster, OH based background screening provider.

1982 - Clarence M. Kelley and Associates (CMKA) is founded in Kansas City, Mo., by former FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley.

1992 – Darren Dupriest appointed Vice President of CMKA’s Backgrounds Division.

June 19th, 2006 - the Backgrounds Division of CMKA became Validity Screening Solutions.

August 1st, 2004 - Dupriest purchases Backgrounds Division. New entity moves to Overland Park, KS.

2003 – CMKA is founding member of National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS)

July 2008 – Validity integrated with PeopleSoft, allowing them to offer a new integrated pre-employment background screening solution for their clients.

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Our Community Involvement

When you partner with Validity, you partner with a company that cares. Our community involvement includes:

Validity's Invest in Tomorrow Program

Validity has worked with numerous public school districts and private schools across the Midwest. These relationships have fostered our interest in the development of our most valuable asset, our community's youth.

We identified 15 youth-related, nonprofit organizations. Each year, Validity returns a percentage of the client's annual background screening expenditures to the nonprofit. Plus, each time one of these organizations sends us a referral, we increase the percentage.
It's our investment in tomorrow. Interested in learning more? Contact us today.

The Children's Place - Adopt-A-Family
For the past eight years, Validity has helped local families in need celebrate the holidays. All of our employees look forward to this event and participate by:

Shopping and purchasing gifts for each family member
Donating money and food
Wrapping and delivering gifts

Big Brothers Big Sisters
Big Brothers Big Sisters is the oldest, largest and most effective youth mentoring organization in the United States. They have been the leader in one-to-one youth service for more than a century, developing positive relationships that have a direct and lasting impact on the lives of young people. Big Brothers Big Sisters mentors children, ages 6 through 18, in communities across the country. Validity team members participate with the Big Brothers Big Sisters organization by volunteering as one-on-one mentors to children in need of a supportive influence. Validity also collects clothing and small household items for donation. Items collected are sold to Big Brother Big Sisters retail partner, Savers. Funds from the sales of donations to Savers pay the cost of Big Brothers Big Sisters call center and route trucks. Excess funds contribute to approximately one-third of their annual budget.

The Salvation Army
The Salvation Amy is a national organization that provides support and assistance to individuals in time of need. Each holiday season, members of the Validity team volunteer for the Salvation Army by collecting and sorting goods for Project Warmth. Validity employees also support The Salvation Army by ringing bells during the holiday season.

The Ronald McDonald House
Ronald McDonald House Charities provides a "home away from home" for families who must travel to Kansas City for their child's medical care...a place where families can maintain the comforting routines of day-to-day life during a stressful time. Members of the Validity team often prepare lunch for guest families staying at the Ronald McDonald House in Kansas City, MO.

Validity makes annual donations to the following organizations:

Blue Valley Educational Foundation
The Blue Valley Educational Foundation was created in the fall of 1990 in response to changes in tax-based support for public education. These changes meant that our residents' ability to directly support the Blue Valley School District was lessened. The Foundation was created to help supplement the needs of the students in the school district through teacher grants and supplemental programs. The Foundation is a means to empower educators to go beyond the limits of our financial environment, not just occasionally, but continually.

Olathe Kansas Public Schools Foundation
The Olathe Public Schools Foundation, founded in 1997, is a non-profit, volunteer-based organization providing grants, scholarships and recognitions for the teachers and students of our district.

Kansas City, Kansas School Foundation For Excellence
The Kansas City Kansas School Foundation For Excellence was established in 1990 with an annual fundraiser of our KCK Golf Tournament. The Foundation was formed to provide 12 three thousand scholarships for students in the Kansas City Kansas Public School District. Today, our nonprofit organization continues to grow beyond a golf tournament but hopes to direct funds and services from individuals, businesses, corporations, memorials and other nonprofit organizations to programs and projects where educational funding is not available.

Boy Scouts of America / Heart of America Council
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA), was incorporated on February 8, 1910, and chartered by congress in 1916. Its purpose is to provide for boys and young adults an effective educational program designed to build desirable qualities of character, to train in the responsibilities of participating citizenship and to develop in them personal fitness.