The Awesome Online Background Checks

When something looks too excellent to be true it usually is. Are online background checks all they're cracked-up to be? Are they really Fast and Nationwide? It will be perfectly legal to do a criminal record search on any person at any time. Now I know that I've lost various of the public who now think that I am off my rocker because the public know that there are all sorts of forms that the public have to sign with all kinds of legal warnings with criminal penalties and such, however, I'll say it yet again. "anybody can do a criminal record search on any person, any time they feel like it." Because I expect the public to read this whole article, I am not going to explain those statements until further into the article.

There is no on the spot national collection of all criminal offender records that you would be able to gain access to. Right now the public are probably sure that I am crazy. "Why just last night on Law & Order they got the bad guy's record . . ." There, the public are talking about NCIC, the National Crime Data Center or usually known whereas the FBI files. While the FBI maintains the best and most accurate information, unfortunately, the public can't acquire them, unless of course the public are a federally insured bank, a defense department contractor, a nuclear power plant, a branch with the federal government itself or various other such entity. A surprising amount of usually intelligent individuals think that there are giant federal government databases with data on almost all people including their criminal background, job history, credit files an even what books they find out with the library and what videos they rent. If that were true, why does it take the federal government itself four months and $2400 to do its own Alabama public records? Don't believe me? Send me an e-mail and I will send the public the link to the Office of Personnel Management website that shows the charge and time schedule.

There is a big, big difference between everywhere and anywhere. The companies that sell collection data advertise that they lookup everywhere, or at least that's what they expect the public to believe. Using the word Nationwide is designed to make the public think that they find everywhere. The question next becomes, "If the public don't find everywhere, what do the public find?" The answer is that we find anywhere you has lived or worked. It will be much better to find anywhere and acquire real information than to find everywhere and acquire inaccurate collection information?

So if there's no such thing whereas an on the spot nationwide collection what are these companies selling? First let me tell the public what these databases are excellent for and next I'll tell the public why they're dangerous. In various states with the USA their REAL criminal offender records are available in various manner of publicly accessible form. It can be on the net and it may need a subscription or acknowledgment of permissible purpose for its use, however, it really is available. Texas is a excellent example of this. For a small charge the public can go via the internet and gain access to the REAL criminal offender records with the state of Texas. Florida, Minnesota and Virginia are other examples of where the public could possibly get via these collection services what I call "REAL" information. The problem is that these collection companies don't tell the consumer (the public) that is most cases and in most areas with the usa the public are getting either nothing or marginal data at best.