It was last spring that the municipality started checking all of its 7,000 employees and new hires continuously against the criminal record.
Södertälje resident Staffan Olsson reported the initiative to the OJ as a violation of the constitution.
In the same vein, JO started a special case where the authority, among other things, demanded answers from the municipality to a series of detailed questions about why they do the background checks.
SVT has requested the municipality's opinion, and it admits a certain infringement of personal privacy.
Hear Boel Godner (S) justify why the expanded background checks are justified, in the clip above.