About Criminal Background Checks
Searching for criminal records is much more complicated than it appears on the surface. Contrary to popular belief, there is no central database available to most private employers to instantly find a person’s criminal record at one touch. The FBI database, (National Crime Information Center – NCIC) is only available to law enforcement or employers that are legally authorized or mandated to submit fingerprints and even with this database there is the possibility of errors in the records. Searches offered by most background screening firms are drawn from government data that is commercially available or has been deemed to be a public record and released.
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