How To Conduct A Criminal Background Check On Your Own - Part 2

By Author: Randy Mann
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Now, remember when we discussed verifying a residential history? Here's why - you'll need to conduct local searches in each and every local jurisdiction. That means that if the person in question has lived in seven different cities in 6 different counties in the last 5 years, you'll have to visit each and every one of them before you can be assured of a clear record. No open-to-the-public nationwide criminal database exists. Not even the FBI has one. (The NCIC, or National Crime Information Center, is only available to law enforcement officials.) So, you'll be slogging through boxes in lots of courthouses and statehouses if your criminal background check subject has moved around a lot. If your subject has attended a private school or college, consider contacting them, as well. Some colleges and universities don't report crimes committed on campus for fear of bad publicity, especially minor crimes and student-on-student crimes. To ensure that your subject's wild-oats days weren't a source of criminal activity, you'll want to contact the campus police or public safety officials.

Let's suppose that you did manage to lift ...
... a good clear set of son-in-law-to-be's finger prints from his water glass at dinner and you want the FBI to run them. You'll have to fill out a request form, wait for it to be processed and then wait 24 hours to a week to get your results. The FBI can tell you if the subject has ever served in the military, ever been employed by local, state or federal government, and whether or not his fingerprints are on file for any other reasons (gun ownership, criminal record, etc.) Employers are supposed to be assured of a 24 hour response for prospective employees, but the general public may have to wait a while for their results. I think that's probably a deterrent to prospective fathers-in-law and other nosey neighbors.

Whether or not your search turns up anything is a good thing or a bad thing, depending on what you hope to find. You can hire someone to do the dirty work of slogging through old case files. You can spend weeks and even months before you find out what you did or didn't want to know. My best advice is to hire an online criminal background check firm like Instant People Check and let them do the work for you. They've got nearly instant access to local, state and federal records you could never search as quickly or as thoroughly. And they don't need the boy's fingerprints to do it!

Instant People Check is a leading provider of an instant criminal background check http://www.instantpeoplecheck.com/ online. For just $12.95 you'll a lot more about your potential new hire that they may want you to. You can do national or state-specific criminal records checks quickly and cheaply.