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Monday, 30 August 2010

Searching For Criminal Records Online - Is It Worth It At All?

By Steven Sea

There're more than a few reasons people want to search for criminal records on a person. A common instance is employee selection process. The background check on some guy will confirm you about his past records regarding drug abuse, shoplifting and/or sex offences. When an employer does such background checks, it becomes easy for him to screen out those job applicants who have such criminal records.

This saves the employer's time, money and hopefully - the goodwill and reputation of his business. Fortunately, there're a lot of free online services that will help you investigate someone's criminal record comprehensively. But while using such services, you got to make sure that they are maintaining a through, updated and large database to satisfy your query effectively.

Among the services that let you check criminal records, there are both free and fee based services. In either way, you are usually allowed to carry out your searches by category, location, occupation or other similar kind of criteria. You could also find search engines with more advanced search features and criteria.

In many cases, these searches are not at all restricted to the US, in many cases. Some online search services will let you search the records Canada as well as different parts of Europe. Besides criminal records, these services also let you perform searches on other sensitive issues like copyright, trademark, births, divorces, marriages, deaths and sexual offences to name just a few.

Some other websites let you to try out the data in the National Sex Offender Registry. Such sites make it absolutely simple to learn the truth about the neighbors and the neighborhood. This lets you understand how safe it is to let the children play outside and away from the home. And you can also watch out for those potentially nasty characters.

If you look at the sad stories of some missing children out there, you can't hold your tears sometimes. If you don't let that to happen to your family or loved ones, you should try a fee based search engine that lets you to search criminal records in depth and thoroughly.

Even if you don't find much through your criminal record searches, don't despair since there're other ways around to it. You can always visit the local courthouse for looking into the public records or searching records on someone. Sometimes the local court offices or police departments have records which online services can't provide you with. So, it's safe to try both online and offline options.

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  1. This is greatly beneficial if you are in doubt on the character of your new neighbor, office mates, and new business partner.

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