Criminal Background Checks
All About Criminal Background Checks
Occasionally here on the records and backgrounds blog, I decide to direct our readers to a number of blog posts on a related subject. Since it’s Friday, I thought I would silo a bunch of links to blog posts on the general subject of “Criminal Background Checks”.
We’ve tried to cover criminal background checks from any number of angles, from middle management wanting to perform background checks on potential employees, to concerned parents wanting to know what kind of person is driving their kids’ bus to school in the morning, to a regular guy with a few legal problems in the past, who’s concerned what exactly is going to show up on their background search.
No one person is probably going to find all of these articles useful, but just about everyone is going to find a topic or background check tips that apply to them. So happy searching and I hope everything checks out for you in your life.
Criminal Background Check How-To Articles
These four “how to” posts tell you how to perform some function or other involved with the subject of checking backgrounds and amateur private investigation: looking up public records, doing your own background check, finding out if someone has a police record and checking a driving record.
How to Look Up Public Records without a Background Check – If you don’t have a whole lot of money to spend on advanced background checks, but you have serious concerns about someone who is spending time around your family, here’s a how-to guide for how to perform your own background checks, without paying for one.
How to Get a Free Criminal Background Check – In an economy like we’re dealing with, you can’t have enough instruction on how to do your own background checks, so we’ve touched on this subject a number of times. This article offers more information on performing your own online searches of people’s records.
How to Find Out if Someone Has a Police Record – This is a quick guide to investigating someone who has raised your suspicions, or someone who spends a lot of time around your children. Performing a background investigation may be about hiring the right person, or having some peace of mind your family is in good hands.
How to Check a Driving Record – Checking a driving record lets you learn about an employee who is going to be driving your property around. Checking a driving record might involve learning about what your own personal auto accident and traffic ticket file says, so you can lower your car insurance rates by setting the record straight.
Background Checks General Information
These offer pretty basic information for someone wanting to perform a background check on someone else. One involves comparison shopping for paid background check services, one involves information on ignoring those services and performing your own background search, and one simply discusses why you should behave yourself and not post crazy stuff online, lest you provide ammunition friends, authorities and potential employers can hold against you.
Background Checks – Services – I posted the other day a review of background records services, which I’m generally hesitant to do, since I don’t want to appear to be shilling for anyone. These are the big companies you’ve heard of already, so it probably doesn’t hurt posting what they charge for each service, and comparing them against one another.
Free Public Access to Criminal Records – If you want to perform free criminal record searches on your own, this page is a good resource for getting access to criminal records at the city, state and federal level. There’s a lot of free public information on the Internet, but knowing where to look can be a real pain sometimes. If you have no idea where to start, then start here.
Background Record Checks – This one reads a bit of a rant about invasion of privacy, though I really wanted to talk about one of my favorite old movies and how it applies to the immanence of background information in this, the Information Age. I guess the mood strikes me sometimes. As it is, you might find something useful in my little screed about background record checks.
What About My Criminal Background?
Here’s a couple of articles from the perspective of someone wanting information on which of their dirty secrets is going to show up on a criminal background profile, and how a person in that situation might go about getting a few of those secrets expunged from the record.
Do Dismissed Cases Show Up on a Criminal Background Check? – One common concern people who have been arrested, but not convicted, have is whether that arrest and trial stays on their record or not. Read and see what you can expect is sitting on your criminal record in a database out there.
How to Expunge Your Criminal Record – Occasionally, you’ll find mistakes in your criminal history, or learn that enough time has passed that a criminal case should be dropped from your record, but hasn’t. Here’s information on how to expunge your record, when some bureaucratic error is sullying your good name.
Business Background Checks
Generally speaking, doing an informal background check on a local company or small business isn’t going to turn up a criminal record, but I wanted to include the two of these on the list. Fraud and other illegal business practices can creep into your business partnerships and customer/client relationships, so I wanted you to be armed with the ability to do your due diligance, when it comes time to do business.
How to Investigate a Small Business – Many small businesses that are run as limited liability companies (LLC’s) are pretty much the private enterprise of a single owner, so checking on the background of a man’s LLC or private business is often akin to checking on his background. Here’s how you research a small business you’ve considered building a commercial relationship with.
How Does a Business Background Check Work? – Checking out a business to see whether it’s legitimate is perfectly reasonable, especially if you are about to become partners with them or you’re about to become a client, either as a supplier or a customer. Learn about the past of your business relations, so you don’t sign a contract with someone who’s going to take you for a lot of money.
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