a. Our Best Practices
Criminal Search consists of the Social Security Address
Trace Report, The NationCheck, and County and Federal
Courts wherever the applicant has lived in the last
10 years. This is our recommended search to obtain the
most complete picture of your applicant history in a
reasonable and practical manner.
b. WBC strongly cautions any
company using a database search as its sole screening
method. This search is the primary product large data
compiler/ "screening" companies are selling.
Incomplete records or records that are not in the database
represent a significant risk to your company. These
searches are excellent for filling in the gaps but not
as a stand-alone search. For the most complete search
we recommend the NationCheck combined with our Hands-On
CountyCheck.
c. Statewide Repositories are
an excellent tool to use in addition to county level
searches. Most are available as part of our NationCheck
and others are accessible only as a non-instant search.
The strength of this search is that it allows you to
get a thumbnail sketch of the entire state. The weakness
of this search is that no repository has a database
that is 100% accurate. Therefore, we only recommend
performing a Statewide Repository Search to Complement
County Court Searches.
d. County Courts: All
Criminal Justice Starts At The County Level
- A County Search, although limited in it's geographic
scope, may be the only way to obtain the most accurate
and up to date information. The county criminal search
is the basic building block of any background check
program.
e. Federal Courts: Federal criminal
records show criminal complaints brought by the U.S.
government against defendants for violations of federal
criminal law. The Federal court system is totally separate
from the State and County court systems. If your are
interested in a complete and thorough background check,
federal searches are a must.
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