Criminal Background Checks

Search and conduct a thorough criminal background check by searching criminal history, court records, find current past addresses, check prison, jail inmate records, and department of corrections records. Also check professional licenses and other credentials. Find resources for premium and free background checks

Criminal Background Check - How to go about it!

These days anyone can run background checks. Traditionally prospective employers and landlords would run a background check on prospective tenants and employees. These reports usually listed a person's past history of addresses, contact information, criminal history and also civil judgments, bankruptices and liens.

In order for an employee or landlord to do a cirminal background check they need to ask you for a signed authorization with your information and addresses including date of birth and sometimes SSN or social security number. These inforamtion will help the bureaus providing background checks or employee screening to show accurate information available from public record data available on you. Many online companies provide background check services online which for a nominal fee they can provide an instant reports. However most accurate and comprehensive reports include research at county level. Many employee screening services or data aggregators need to hire researches who research the information at countly level organizations such as courts.

Usually criminal background check searches criminal and civil court records, judgments, dispositions, pending and dismissed cases, llawsuits, filing dates, closing dates, filing types, case numbers, party names, case summaries, charges and attorney names as available, bankruptcies and other court dockets. You can even find if a case has been filed with the court within one to four business days. Search includes multiple criminal record sources such as state dockets, federal and appellate court dockets, supreme court dockets, county court dockets, sex offender registries, department of corrections, municipal jurisdictions, federal fugitive files, small claims courts, federal courts, state courts, supreme courts, district courts, family courts, appeals courts, traffic courts in states available, state and county criminal record repositories, prison parole and release files, probation records, records from other state agencies and Interpol public records.

FBI Background Check

What type of applicants does the FBI Background Check?
The FBI conducts background investigations on all persons who apply for employment with the FBI. Additionally, the FBI conducts background investigations for certain other government entities, such as the White House, Department of Justice, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, and certain House and Senate committees.

Who can obtain the results of such background check?
The subject of a background investigation may request the contents of his or her own report through the Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts. The results of background investigations are given to the requesting government entity. Other government entities that need to assess a person's suitability for employment or access to classified materials may also request the results.