Criminal and Civil

County Criminal Felony and Misdemeanor

This search looks for occurrences of a person's name in the county criminal record repository. It also includes any active warrants and open court cases listed on the court docket. New York state law requires a statewide criminal search in lieu of a county criminal search for residents of New York.

Statewide Criminal Report

This report looks for occurrences of a person's name in statewide criminal repositories held by each state. This repository consists of a collection of records from counties in a particular state. While useful in targeting every county in a state, a record should be verified for accuracy at the county level. Statewide reports can vary greatly in turnaround time from same-day service to three weeks or longer, and are not available in some states.

Multi-Jurisdictional National Criminal Index Search

This is a premier database report that searches for occurrences of a person's name in one quick scan across the country. By searching through more than 1.4 billion criminal records from county and state databases, Departments of Corrections records, national and international terrorism sources, banking and financial regulatory sanctions, results often yield partial or out-of-date information where it must be verified at the county level where the record occurred for accurate results.

Arrest Records National Search

This record-locating search maintains over 63 million records and is updated hourly, with up to one million new records added monthly, resulting in 70% of total jail bookings nationwide. The information is an excellent macro-locator for possible records outside of the typical micro-areas where someone has lived, worked and went to school. Layering this macro-report into a standard package has proven to increase records located throughout the country and further improve screening quality.

This report is frequently run pre-hire or as an on-going monitoring report to mitigate risk associated with criminal activity during the employment lifecycle providing immediate access to critical information on employees and associates. All records located must be verified at the county and align with state and federal records access rules.

Federal Criminal Search – National

This report searches the U.S. federal court system for any criminal records pertaining to a candidate. This report also includes any active warrants and open cases listed on the court docket. Federal courts can be searched by district, state or nationally.

National Sex Offender Registry

This is a national search for sex offender registrations. The report includes a LIVE search of the National Sex Offender Public Registry, which includes all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico. The information found in this registry is the most accurate and current information available. Some states have restrictions on use and dissemination of this data.

Patriot Act Report

The U.S.A. Patriot Act of 2001 mandates that no U.S. company shall do business with any person or entity that has been determined to have committed, or poses a risk of committing or supporting, terrorist acts, and/or those identified on the list of Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) and Blocked Persons List (BPL), generated by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). In addition to the required OFAC check, our report compiles information from other agencies and terrorist watch lists including the FBI, CIA, State Department, INTERPOL, Canadian, British and Australian watch lists, as well as other domestic and international agencies.

County Civil Litigation

This search looks for occurrences of a candidate's name in any records of civil litigation. If the courts are split, CareerBuilder Employment Screening searches the upper court records.

Federal Civil Litigation

This report searches the U.S. federal court system for any civil litigation records pertaining to a candidate. This report also includes any active warrants and open cases listed on the court docket.