Atlanta looks to New Jersey as it weighs Uber airport plan

Atlanta's city council is considering a plan proposed by Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport that would allow Uber and other ride-booking services to operate at the world's busiest airport under certain conditions.

Criminal background checks have been a point of contention in Atlanta, with Uber objecting to the type of fingerprint checks being proposed.

In Houston, where city officials insisted on fingerprint checks for Uber drivers, they found that background checks without fingerprints allowed people who have been charged with murder, sexual assault and other crimes to evade detection in a variety of ways.