Background Check Report
What You Can Do:
START HERE - Try searching a friend, relative, celebrity, yourself or someone else you might know..
At first, it may seem pointless to do a background check on yourself at all whether it can be done for free or for a reasonable fee. You know your own character and it’s others, not yourself, who you need to check out for your own protection, right? Wrong!
Your information is out there, at least in some form, on the public record. Self background checks are important as they allow you to know what information is available to others. Employers, landlords, old school friends and someone you’re in a new relationship with may all be checking your background information. If you don’t know what they may find in a paid or free background check, it could affect your work, home and/or social life.
START HERE – Try searching a friend, relative, celebrity, yourself or someone else you might know..
Only you know if the public records information about you is true, but without a self check, you may never uncover any errors that could be a part of waht others are reading about you. Starting a background check for free can be as simple as typing your name in search engines and adding different extras such as your phone number or the name of a social networking website you frequent. Then, for a small fee, you can check out if any past criminal or other public records are showing under your name from your local police unit or a background check company.
You can start with a name and other information you know about someone else and enter different search terms into search engines. Be sure to use quotation marks around your searche phrases to get the best responses. Follow trails such as if you see that the person mentions belonging to a certain sports club on Facebook, you can search free for his or her name with the name of the club beside it. Think of other possible identifiers for free background check searches such as where the person went to school or anything relating to his or her profession or hobbies. Sites such as LinkedIn often include this type of background information, plus the names of persons connected to the subject.
Health department and county court records may have some free information available, depending on the state and what is allowed to be released into the public. For a nanny check or other important safety related searches, it’s advisable to get a full background check that may have a fee to rule out a criminal record.
You want to be sure that someone looking after your children or an employee you hire or a person you date doesn’t have a criminal record. Another reason a fee for getting a thorough background check is well worth it is that it can tell you the type of crime with which the individual is associated. After all, a minor traffic offense is one thing and a sex related conviction is another. Just as you don’t want to become involved with a person convicted of a sexual or violent crime though, you also don’t want to run the risk of being a victim of theft or fraud. A thorough, paid criminal backaground check can cover all the bases.
Knowing the individual’s full name is necessary forcriminal background checks, but a date of birth may also be needed. Any other information you have such as race, sex, Social Security Number, address, phone number and/or zip code is helpful. Remember that warrants, juvenile and sealed records aren’t going to be uncovered in a background check. Checks must follow not only federal law, but individual state laws that vary on how long criminal record information can be released. For example, many states have a law that a criminal background check cannot reveal information on a conviction that occurred more than 10 years previously. This law is designed to help individuals who served time for their offense avoid future discrimination in finding a job or place to live.