The California Investigative Consumer Reporting Agencies Act imposes stricter requirements than the FCRA for tenant screening — including mandatory disclosure of the screening company's name and contact information and longer statutes of limitations.
Before denying your rental application based on a tenant screening report, the landlord must provide you with the name of the screening company and a copy of the report. Failure to do so is an independent FCRA and ICRAA violation.
Under the FCRA and ICRAA, the tenant screening company pays all attorney fees when we prevail. You pay nothing. The landlord may also be liable for using a defective report.
Do I Qualify?
Did a tenant screening
error get your rental
application denied?
Wrong eviction records, incorrect criminal history, or credit data that doesn’t belong to you can follow you from rental application to rental application. These errors are actionable under both the FCRA and California’s ICRAA, which provides additional protections for rental applicants.
Common Tenant Screening Errors
What errors appear on tenant screening reports?
An eviction judgment belonging to someone with a similar name attributed to you — or an eviction that was dismissed, settled, or vacated still appearing as active.
A criminal record that was expunged or sealed still showing on your tenant screening report — prohibited under California law.
An arrest or case that was dismissed, acquitted, or resolved favorably reported as a conviction on your rental background check.
The landlord denied your application without providing you with the name and contact information of the tenant screening company — required under the FCRA and ICRAA.
Another person's eviction history, criminal record, or credit information merged into your tenant screening report due to a name or address match error.
Eviction judgments, criminal records, or collection accounts older than California's reportable periods that should no longer appear on screening reports.
California's ICRAA requires landlords to inform you of the screening company they use and your right to request a free copy of the report within 3 years. If your landlord didn't disclose the screening company name when they denied your application, that alone is an ICRAA violation.
Under California law, arrests that did not result in convictions generally cannot be used to deny housing. If your application was rejected based on an arrest record alone, contact us — this may be an independent fair housing violation on top of your FCRA/ICRAA claim.
Why AJG Law Group
Why AJG Law Group
for your tenant screening claim?
California's ICRAA provides stronger tenant protections than federal law. We handle tenant screening error cases against all major screening companies and know how to pursue both the CRA and the landlord for maximum recovery.
California's ICRAA provides additional protections beyond the federal FCRA for investigative consumer reports used in housing and employment. We pursue every available claim.
Under the FCRA and ICRAA, the background check company pays all attorney fees when we prevail. You pay nothing out of pocket.
AJG Law Group handles background check error cases against Checkr, HireRight, Sterling, and other CRAs across all of California.
