I’d just suggest to add a point about court records. Very important in my opinion.

A personal experience I had with background checks was when a friend of mine found a flyer on his car windshield for pressure washing. What he didn’t know was that in Central Florida, flyers for that same pressure-washing service were a front for a burglar. Sadly, he and his wife were later burglarized. In retrospect, if the victims had simply gotten identification and run a simple criminal background check before hiring the young man in the t-shirt, they would have discovered he had a history of burglaries. It is probable that just asking for identification would have chased him off.

When I google offense code 290, it says
that is the sex offender registration act.

So, shouldn’t this have been categorized
under Sex Related, not Traffic/Other?

D
criminalwatchdog.com

Please do NOT promote sites that refuse to:
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name the principles or owners of a site.
name a principal or owner who is Not referenceable (on say Linkedin)

A Contact Form is USELESS. How can one establish TRUST? WHO do you follow-up with? Who can you complain to.

This site is itself bordering on Questionable. It does not give the name of the owner, nor a telephone number, nor coverage stats, nor refresh stats (age of data), etc.

Please make Authors work a tad harder. This site is NOT FREE. It will cost you something if you fill out the Contact form.

It is terry sweet, remember me from national data resarch

Terry Sweet
integrascan.com

Some jurisdictions provide criminal background checks for people who are applying for jobs involving matters of trust or children. Check with your local police departments to find out what procedures must be followed to have a criminal background check run on someone. It will HAVE to be done with their permission. It is also important to remember that your local police can do this only if authorized by law and it will not typically include a search of the NCIC (National Crime Information Computer) or any archived records with the FBI. It will search only the state in which the jurisdiction is in – not other states.

I agree – there is a thing called rehabilitation. Also, what a person may have been charged with and pled guilty to may not reflect the actual offense committed. Similarly, may innocent people will plead guilty to something just to avoid the costs involved of proving their innocence. With sex offenders – many innocent people have been convicted simply because of people’s attitudes about the subject. A person charged with a sex crime is automatically considered to be guilty rather than considered to be innocent until proven guilty.

In summation, this is a service that really serves no viable purpose other than to capitalize on people’s fears of crime.

Doc

Thank you for the comments. Please note:

1. If you don’t like the message, don’t shoot the messenger.
2. All this information is available publicly via many other sites as well, only that they charge you for it. Many US States also have their own sites where you can individually search for criminals for free. All that this site is doing is providing a unified front-end to all that data.
3. All information is based on public records. Some States DO NOT provide public records, hence information about criminals from such states will not exist.
4. If you wish to get in touch with the site’s founders, there is a contact form available both for individual and press inquiries.

WHY?
What do they have to hide?
How can such sites be trusted?
How can I do a criminal check on the site Owner?

I love this article. It is very important. Thank you.
But it falls short of what people expect.
However, please keep looking for more sites.