State and Multi-State Criminal Background Searches and Sex Offender Registries
Pull a candidate’s criminal records from local, county or state files. With a database of over 550 million criminal records and more than 13 million photos, our vendors have an extensive collection of public record sources, delivering an intuitive report in a user-friendly format. Our in-house team will manually review all “HITS” to reduce the likelihood of false positives before the results are returned.
What information do I need to know about the applicant to run a background check?
Pull a candidate’s criminal records from local, county or state files. With a database of over 550 million criminal records and more than 13 million photos, our vendors have an extensive collection of public record sources, delivering an intuitive report in a user-friendly format. Our in-house team will manually review all “HITS” to reduce the likelihood of false positives before the results are returned.
- Candidate’s full name (first, middle and last name)
- Date of birth
- Social Security number
- Current address (previous address if not lived at for two years)
What background check product should I (at a minimum) consider?
A lot of companies that run background checks start with a number of direct court searches in the jurisdictions where the person lived in the recent past and supplement that with a multi-jurisdictional criminal database search to make sure they do not miss records from places where the applicant worked or traveled. After that, they add role-specific reports and verifications.
How long do screenings typically take?
The most important contributing factor (aside from how information is gathered) is the difference between hits and clears. For instance, many companies that run a criminal database check will know instantly if there is no record and the person is considered “clear.” However, depending on the type of search ordered, if the database returns a hit, the information must be verified before it can be used in a decision.
How far into the past can screenings go?
The standard criminal search includes a look back period up to seven years, or as otherwise permitted by law. Expanded searches are offered upon request and as available.
What is included?
What is included in a Tenant Criminal Background Search:
- State’s records repositories for felony & misdemeanors going back up to seven years
- Predator Watch List
- OFAC List
- Terrorist Watch List
- FBI Most Wanted database
- ATF database
- Customs database
- US Marshal’s database
- US Secret Service database
- America’s Most Wanted database
- 50 state sex offender database search
Pricing
$6 State Criminal Search
Global Homeland Security Search Report
$15 Multi State Criminal Search
Multi-State Criminal Background Search Report