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Breakdown of term FBI Background Check

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How background check sites like CriminalBackgroundRecords.com include FBI Most Wanted Records for free with each criminal background check ordered.

The FBI Background Check press release gives multiple scenarios where the term, “FBI Background Check” is used along with each of their respective meanings.  This term is used to describe varying forms of background checks that involve some level of FBI records or lists maintained by the FBI.  One such list is the FBI Most Wanted List which is a free background check by CriminalBackgroundRecords.com for each of its customers every time they place a criminal background check.

For the curious, the press release also gives a concise summary of the creation and history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) formerly known as the Bureau of Investigation (BOI).  The paper also gives detailed step by step information for accessing and getting Federal Records, especially FBI Records.

Full article: FBI Background Checks

County & Statewide Background Check vs. National Criminal Background Check

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County Criminal Background Check & Statewide Background Check vs. National Criminal Background Check

Why there are advantages to using county and statewide criminal checks and why the best
solution maybe to incorporate a screening policy that uses both!

Statewide criminal background checks (with the exception of 4 states) currently can be performed in seconds through a background check provider like CriminalBackgroundRecords.com.  Statewide criminal background checks are currently the most popular criminal background check.  Statewide criminal checks in Wyoming, South Dakota, Massachusetts and Delaware either take days to complete or have to be researched county by county within the state.  County criminal background checks can be performed in all US Counties and take between a few hours to multiple days to complete.

Statewide background checks (at least those offered on CriminalBackgroundRecords.com) include other free searches in addition to checking court criminal records (usually felony or misdemeanor convictions).  These additional free searches pull data from the Department Of Corrections DOC, national sex offender registry (this is a 50 state search) and other independent databases like the International Terrorist Database.  Criminal records found in a statewide background check and the national criminal background check can go as far back as 70+ years.

There are over 3,100 counties in the USA (including parishes and atypical communities) and every standard county criminal background check researches the past 7 years of the person being investigated.  In some cases you may be able to have a court researcher go back 10 years. However, employers typically use the 7-year county criminal check as a standard and can not just periodically run a  10-year county criminal check on some applicants as that would make their employment screening policy inconsistent.  CriminalBackgroundRecords.com can perform county level criminal background checks in ANY United States County and has court researchers available whenever courts are open.

Here is a question that gets asked a lot along with the answer:
Why would you order a county criminal background check or statewide criminal background check when you can order a national background check?

Some of the main reasons include the following:

  • National criminal background checks cost more to perform
  • National criminal background checks currently do not include all 50 US States
  • National background checks are not as current and accurate as a county level criminal background check

It is standard policy for CriminalBackgroundRecords.com employment screening customers to first run either a statewide background check or national criminal background check; and then if a record is found that needs further clarification, CriminalBackgroundRecords.com will conduct a county level criminal background check in the county in question FOR FREE for their monthly billed employment screening clients.  Then the results of the county check goes to the employer and they now have the most current and accurate record available and can therefore make a hiring decision based on it.

CriminalBackgroundRecords.com premier members (members who meet certain requirements – like specific volume amounts) get billed monthly, get discounted pricing and are offered other special features and benefits that can help keep them efficient and effective.  Employment Screening customers get a platform that assists them to be compliant along with documents such as, “Your Rights under the FCRA” and “Adverse Action Letters” etc…   CriminalBackgroundRecords.com offers these documents and others like them to its employment screening customer’s every day.

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NICS – National Instant Criminal Background Check System

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What an NICS Background Check is and related law like the Brady Act

An NICS background check is a search of the national instant criminal background check system maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for the purposes of screening potential firearms and explosives purchasers.  In the United States the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (Brady Act) of 1993 mandates that anyone looking to buy firearms or explosives in the USA now have to have a NICS background check performed on them before being allowed to complete their purchase.

The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) is a point of sale system used wherever firearms or explosives are sold in the USA.  An NICS background check is initiated by a seller through an automated electronic system or by telephone.   The request then goes to the FBI who then determines if the applicant should be approved or denied purchase of the firearm(s) or explosives being sought.   The NICS uses the criteria outlined in the Gun Control Act of 1968 to determine if a potential buyer is allowed to purchase firearms or explosives.  In addition to criminal records, the NICS index search checks for other disqualifiers that would prohibit someone from owning a gun.  The law requires Federal Firearms License holders (FFLs) to get the green light from running an NICS background check before transferring a firearm.  If the NICS background check comes back negative then the seller has to deny sale of the firearm to the buyer.

The national instant criminal background check system was officially launched by the FBI on November 30, 1998.  It was then immediately used by all the Federal Firearms Licensees, who since then have been able to accept or deny gun purchase requests instantly.  In certain cases where definitive denial records are not present, but significant red flags are raised, it could go into examination in which case the results would not be instant.   Prior to completing a firearms sale, merchants/cashiers either call in an NICS background check to the FBI/designated agency or perform the request online  to get confirmation on whether or not their customer has a criminal record or other item that would make them ineligible to complete the purchase and transfer of gun(s) or explosives.

NICS background checks are a necessary step in the sale of firearms and explosives.  It helps prevent criminals, illegal aliens and terrorists from gaining possession of deadly weapons that could compromise the safety of unarmed civilians.

* The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) is located at the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division in Clarksburg, West Virginia, and has made over 100 million NICS background checks in the last decade, leading to more than 700,000 denials.  It also ensures the timely transfer of firearms to eligible gun buyers. http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cjisd/nics.htm

CriminalBackgroundRecords.com does not offer the NICS, but does offer the following services:

To purchase a copy of your FBI files please contact them at the following address and phone number:
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Criminal Justice Information Services Division
Attention: Correspondence Group, Module D-2
1000 Custer Hollow Road
Clarksburg, WV 26306
Telephone Number: (304) 625-3878

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Personal Background Check

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Personal Criminal Background Checks

The reasons for performing an online criminal background check on oneself.

For the purposes of this article when we use the phrase personal background check or self-background check we mean personal criminal background check or self-criminal background check.  A personal criminal background check is when an individual person places an order for a criminal background check on themselves.  An example of why someone would order a personal background check is simple.  If someone just had their criminal record expunged for instance and wanted to pull their criminal record online to verify that is was no longer available, they would do this with an online criminal background check provider like CriminalBackgroundRecords.com.

Some people are simply unsure of whether or not they have a criminal record on file.  They may have been arrested in the past or went to court for a crime committed, but were unsure of how the court system works/worked or if they were ever found guilty of anything that may be considered a criminal record.  In this case they are just looking to see what, if anything is out there on them.  These are prime examples of why people perform personal background checks.

Placing an order for a personal background check on CriminalBackgroundRecords.com is easier than you might think.  You do not have to wait days or weeks for your order results; they are returned instantly for 46 of the 50 U.S. states.
Performing a self background check and discovering your own criminal history record is only one example of when pulling a criminal background check makes sense. Two other examples of criminal background check uses are Tenant Screening and Employment Screening. Tenant Screening is when a landlord or property manager conducts a background check on a prospective tenant. Employment Screening is when an employer performs a background check before hiring a new employee. Both tenant screening and employment screening can save a company from big headaches including monetary and legal costs.

About Criminal Background Records .com:
Criminal Background Records .com is a part of the Information Enterprises network (www.informationenterprises.com) and has partners all across the country working to ensure that its records are of equal or superior quality to any other criminal provider in the country. With a seasoned executive team, CriminalBackgroundRecords.com gets you the data you need, delivered electronically, right when you need it. The site empowers its customers by offering a convenient method to retrieving critical information that is not always easy to obtain. Criminal Background Records .com does this for you very quickly at an extremely affordable price.

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Central Billing for Multiple Background Check Accounts

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Now Offering Central Billing for Multiple Accounts
Along with Administrative Usage Monitoring, Reporting & Control
For Large Companies and Organizations in the USA

Due to large demand of central control for criminal background checks, employment screening and tenant screening in the USA, CriminalBackgroundRecords.com has created a new environment now available for companies and organizations operating in multiple offices, areas and states.  These clients wanted multiple accounts/users, and central administrative usage monitoring and reporting.  This is now possible with CriminalBackgroundRecords.com and is becoming a much more popular background screening solution with large processing customers throughout America.

This is how it works and how we customize this solution for well qualified customers:

  1. Define how many individual user accounts need to be setup along with which background checks each of them are allowed to perform.
  2. Each user account needs to fill out our Monthly Billing application form as each User ID needs to be registered (we walk each individual user through this process if need be).
  3. We setup a Master Account that can monitor and view the transactional usage & other activity on all the individual user accounts from one view.
    • We will create the Master Account for you or whoever is going to be overseeing/monitoring your transactions including all your criminal background check orders.
  4. We will send you a monthly invoice each month that includes all of the individual user accounts on it.  Very simple, just one bill each month for all activity.
  5. If your goal is to start running background checks in such a system ASAP, we will have a business development representative work with you on setting up all your accounts and other necessary prep work.  Remember significant volume discounts are available so please ask about our pricing.
  6. We can have all your user accounts, master account, billing etc., all setup within a few days!

This opportunity is extremely valuable to large corporations, organizations and government agencies that have or want individual user accounts across multiple offices or states.  This new platform gives your organization the flexibility of multiple user accounts and the security and oversight that comes with central control (through usage monitoring and all encompassing reports).  CriminalBackgroundRecords.com delivers this new platform complete with central invoicing, administrative access and only one bill to pay each month which includes a breakdown of all individual user account activity.

For more information regarding this new platform or to sign up for it, please contact our Business Development Team at:  bd@infoeinc.com or bd@CriminalBackgroundRecords.com

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E-Verify Citizenship and Immigration Status – Criminal Background Checks & Social Security Verifications

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Proving Citizenship and Immigration Status
Criminal Background Checks & Social Security Verifications
And a peek into the US Citizenship & Immigration Services

On March 1, 2003, service and benefit functions of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) transitioned into the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as US Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS).  The USCIS which can be found online at:  http://www.uscis.gov/ outlines their E-Verify system which is free to employers and lets them know the employment eligibility of new applicants/employees. However, it appears that they do not allow you to use the system until after you hire the applicant.  If you have questions about E-Verify then you can reach them in Washington DC at: 202-272-8720 (E-Verify is part of the SAVE Program).  The E-Verify search tells you if someone is eligible to work in the US by giving their current immigration status.  This check should be used by employers as a tool to sift out ineligible employment prospects.  CriminalBackgroundRecords.com and its parent company Information Enterprises, Inc. like this program because it is an extra tool for employers that helps to eliminate social security number mismatches, improves the accuracy of wage and tax reporting, protects jobs for authorized U.S. workers, and helps U.S. employers maintain a legal workforce.

Currently CriminalBackgroundRecords.com offers an SSN Validation & Address History Trace product that is separate from our criminal background checks.  Although this search will not tell you if an individual is legally authorized to work in the USA or what their current status is with the Immigration Office (USCIS), it is still very valuable.  This check can be performed very quickly and will verify when the social security number was issued, where it was issued, to whom it was issued to and will show names and addresses associated with it.  This SSN Search is now commonly used in conjunction with either a statewide criminal background check or national background check.  Our criminal background checks do sometimes return social security numbers within the records themselves for validation.  However, this does not happen every time as criminal court records have historically been archived by date of birth and not social security numbers.  Still, neither our national criminal background check nor SSN Search will tell you if someone is a US Citizen or what their current Immigration Status is.  Having a social security number does not prove that you are a US Citizen, nor does it act as a singular qualifier proving your eligibility to work in the USA.  You would have to contact the USCIS (formerly the INS) directly for confirmation.  The only other option available is to physically get a copy of the individual’s birth certificate or certificate of naturalization showing that either by birth or legal process this person has become a US Citizen.

CriminalBackgroundRecords.com offers the following FREE searches with all its criminal background checks:
We include a Most Wanted Background Check with each Criminal Search.  This pulls information from the following sources:  Top Ten FBI Most Wanted, FBI Most Wanted Fugitives, US Marshals Most Wanted, US Secret Service Most Wanted, Americas Most Wanted and other state departments of public safety.

We also include a Full Terrorist Background Check with each criminal background search.  We check the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons list maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury with every criminal search.

In addition to the two free searches above, we also include a National Sex Offender Registry Check (including all 50 states) with each background search.  Each state in the nation has a sex offender registry which maintains a database of sex offenders.  The information stored varies from state to state, but in general most state sex offender background reports include high-risk offenders and persons who have been convicted of, found guilty of or plead guilty to committing or attempting to commit sexual offenses.  Many of these records include mug shots & photos when a match is found.

Here is a more detailed breakdown of what is covered in our Sex Offender Search

High-Risk Sex Offenders – Individuals with real recidivism concerns from all 50 US States.

Sexual Predators – Sexually violent offenders & persons obtaining or seeking non-consensual sexual contact with another person and/or has committed sex crimes, such as rape or child sexual abuse.

Department of Corrections – Convicted sex offenders who were under the supervision of the DOC.

Crimes Against Children – Kidnapping, felonious restraint and/or child abuse, including people convicted of, found guilty of or plead guilty to committing or attempting to commit sexual offenses and other crimes against children.

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Interact with staff, background industry experts and more through our new BLOG!

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With this new Blog, end users of criminal reports, industry people, and information technology persons can all converge on one front to address their questions, concerns and ideas.  The word “blog” is just a shortened word for “web log” that has gained in popularity and now is considered a word of its own with its own meaning.  Blogs have become increasingly popular on the Internet and have allowed people who are far away from each other to come together on a website they share a mutual interest in.  Sharing ideas, commentary, news and concerns regarding the background retrieval industry (with people all across the USA) is now possible and very easy to do.  So please visit us at blog.CriminalBackgroundRecords.com and start voicing your opinion today.

Blogs are found on many websites and are usually maintained by an individual, company or organization that adds regular ongoing entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other information for others to read.  CriminalBackgroundRecords.com’s new interactive Blog now allows browsers and users to ask questions like, “What happens when someone goes to court for a proposed crime?” or “what is the difference between a felony, misdemeanor or infraction offense?”  With the new fully functioning blog, people can educate each other as to what a felony, misdemeanor, and infraction are, as well as how certain sentencing works in the USA.

This online blog is for everyone from criminal history searching experts to someone wanting clarification on their own criminal record.  Now there is a platform and place to voice criminal background industry questions.  A place to find out what exactly makes up a criminal conviction record to why a criminal record can be different than an arrest record.  It is a free place to learn, question, and confront common truths and misconceptions pertaining to the criminal background retrieval industry.  Get educated on police policies, US court system operations, US department of corrections and US law.

The USA is comprised of 50 individual states representing 3,143 counties.  At CriminalBackgroundRecords.com you can conduct a county criminal background check in any county in the USA.  You can also conduct a criminal background check at the state level in 48 states.  National criminal checks are also available and include additional free searches like a national sex offender check and terrorist list search.

Below is a breakdown of the major criminal background checks available in the USA
(all of which can be searched at CriminalBackgroundRecords.com)

County Criminal Background Check:
A county search is the most current, accurate and complete search available in the US today.  However, you need to know the state and county you want to perform this search in; otherwise it will not be effective.  This search entails having a professional court researcher manually pull the complete record in question for you.  It typically takes a day or more for your search results to come in.  County criminal background checks go back seven years and include felony and misdemeanor conviction records.

Statewide Criminal Background Check:
The statewide criminal background search is the most popular criminal background check used today in the USA.  Statewide criminal checks are available in forty-eight states.  This search includes all commonly looked for information including department of corrections info, bodily characteristics, sentence info, case number and court records (including felony convictions and misdemeanor offenses).

CriminalBackgroundRecords.com online statewide criminal searches include a free national sex offender report, free terrorist database criminal background check, and a free US most wanted criminal database search.

Multi-State Criminal Background Check:
Multi-State criminal searches can cover two or more full states and usually include additional free searches like a sex offender registry check, the terrorist database search (which is maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and lists such international terrorists sometimes called Specially Designated Nationals or SDNs), and a free criminal check of the US Most Wanted list including FBI, Secret Service and Americas most wanted criminals.

National Criminal Background Check:
CriminalBackgroundRecords.com has an instant national criminal background check which consists of 46 US states.  This search includes a national sex offender check and other free criminal background checks made available to the US market as public records.

We now accept PayPal as means of payment for our criminal reports!

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PayPal vs. Credit Cards

More and more online buyers are using PayPal as an alternate form of payment for their online orders.  Why?  We have gathered that with rampant use of credit card fraud, online buyers wanted a safer and easier way to order online without exposing their credit card numbers, and of course to save some money by avoiding credit card fees.

What is PayPal?

PayPal lets you easily send money through the internet without compromising the privacy of your credit card information.  CriminalBackgroundRecords.com added PayPal as a new form of payment for its criminal background reports and other background searches it offers because of the demand of millions of online buyers choosing PayPal instead of the standard credit cards when ordering online.  We understand why Internet purchasers are choosing PayPal over alternate forms of payment, mostly credit cards, and that is because PayPal is safer, easier and currently has no additional fees applied to the use of it.  Why is PayPal safer than using standard credit cards?  PayPal is safer because you can still pay with your credit card, bank account or PayPal balance without exposing your account numbers to the merchant (website that you are buying something from).  Easier because through the checkout process you do not need to enter your financial information over the merchant’s website as PayPal already has your financial information on their end and therefore does not require you to re-enter it.  This simple method actually reduces the overall ordering time as you only need to enter your PayPal email address and password, two inputs of usually memorized information.

Paying online with PayPal at CriminalBackgroundRecords.com gives you all the following benefits:

  • Speedy ordering all through the criminal search checkout process.
  • Safe online ordering of criminal background checks without revealing or exposing your credit card details.
  • You get to choose if you want PayPal to debit your credit card, bank account or to pull money directly from your current PayPal balance.

CriminalBackgroundRecords.com delivers formatted, substantive background reports from county level criminal background checks to geographically comprehensive national criminal searches throughout the USA.  We offer criminal background checks in every state in the nation, and now with PayPal as a new payment ordering mechanism on the site; we are making it possible for our current members who prefer to use PayPal as a form of payment to do so.  We have also added PayPal as a form of payment for our criminal history reports in order to allow new users (who may only exclusively use PayPal when ordering online) to have the opportunity to purchase the best criminal background record reports available on the Internet today, with the payment method they trust the most.

CriminalBackgroundRecords.com hopes this article helps its browsers and users become more educated in the varying online payment methods available today, and more informed as to what exactly to expect when using PayPal to purchase criminal background reports from our site.