Essential Criminal

Our Essential Criminal package includes:

Background screening package contents

Description of contents:

County Criminal

  • We utilize a nationwide network of researchers to locate public record information from more than 3,000 jurisdictions across the U.S. We search for felony and misdemeanor (where available) information to identify arrest or conviction data at the county courthouse. We review this data to verify full name, date of birth, Social Security number and driver's license number (when provided) in order to ensure that the applicant has been correctly identified, especially when he or she has a very common name.
  • Occasional price exceptions for county-level criminal searches exist because roughly 3 percent of the counties in the U.S. demand payment for access to their criminal records. We do not mark up these government imposed file review fees.

Statewide Criminal

  • We search a statewide criminal database for felony and misdemeanor (where available) information to identify arrest or conviction data. This search is not available in all states and price and turnaround vary widely by state. Please contact us for further details about what available information in your state.

Federal Criminal

  • We search the federal district criminal court for the types of convictions that are found at this level, such as interstate drug trafficking, arms violations, immigration violations and bank fraud. This is frequently excluded from a standard background check. Though the number of convictions located is low, the severity of the criminal activity makes this search a necessity for a diligent pre-employment criminal investigation.

Sex Offender Search

  • We search a statewide registered sex offender database using your applicant's full name, date of birth and Social Security number. More than 32 states currently maintain registered sex offender databases.

Social Security Trace

  • This trace acts as an identifier and reveals any alias names, as well as past and present addresses associated with the Social Security number. When used as a component of a larger screening package, this service proves to be highly effective in significantly increasing "hits" or criminal record discovery ratios by revealing information that may have been intentionally undisclosed by the applicant.
  • NOTE: There exists a widely-held and mistaken belief that the Social Security trace actually verifies that your applicant is using their legitimate Social Security number. This is not true. Matching the Social Security number the applicant has presented with credit bureau records (sometimes referred to as "credit headers") does little more than reveal the additional identifying information, as discussed above. Only when used in conjunction with additional searches and verifications does the Social Security trace have impact.
  • If your objective is to know with certainty that the Social Security number, alien card or other I-9 documents that your new hire has presented, are real, legitimate and verify the person you hired is eligible to work in the U.S., then you will want to request the SSA/INS verification.

Also includes the applicants' residence history for the past seven years.

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