Only a short time ago it was very difficult to carry out investigative checks on the general public without finding a private detective and it being extremely expensive. With the more common availability of vast computer databases, this has become much easier. 

It’s now feasible, if you go to the right website, to fire off a number of different searches on free government websites to find criminal records held against members of the public. The problem with this way of working is that you are forced to run searches on countless different web pages and online databases to gather the information that you are trying to obtain. The data can be held differently for different states which makes record retrieval a laborious task. The good news is that there is a much better alternative at a lower cost. A hand full of large central databases have been developed by private companies that allow you to search all criminal records on the same website. This makes it much simpler and much faster to search the records that you are looking for. For a small annual fee of around $40 you are able to search criminal records for every state in the US. All the records are selectable via just one website which makes the task very easy. 

The good news doesn’t stop here. This same low fee also grants you access to pretty much every other type of record that are stored on the large number of US government databases. These include: criminal records, court files / proceedings, birth and death records, marriage / divorce records, sex offenders registers, inmate lists, parole data, personal bankruptcy data, most wanted criminal details, jail registers, missing persons registers, DWI data, assault lists, arrest files and a ton more

Remember that a person|a US citizen does not have to have been locked up to have searchable criminal data held against his name. 

One of the best web site we have found is http://gov-criminal-records.com  This web page provides a very rapid search functionality and the ability to sift through tens of millions of government data all in one place.

So what could we use all this information for and how can it be [helpfuluseful] for us? There are countless reasons why a low yearly cost for these records is worth it’s weight in gold. If you use someone to help around your house, take your pet for a walk, or help with care of your little ones, you can do a search on the person’s name and find out if they have a dubious background. You might be an employer and may wish to launch background checks on potential employees. Again a very quick search will retrieve all the proof you want to ensure you hire the appropriate person. If somebody is over 18 and is involved in criminal activity, they have criminal records held against them which it will now be possible to search for and use. 

Another potential use for this data is if you meet a new date and need to check on the date you have met. It’s better to find out now than in a few years in the future when it’s all too late.  Have fun checking!