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What do Criminal Records searched by County Include?

The criminal record is a report from county courts listing criminal offenses committed as follows: Traffic Offenses: only serious offenses Misdemeanors: minor offense, yet misdemeanor is a crime punishable by incarceration Felonies: more serious offenses carrying a penalty of incarceration up to death penalty.

Each state has laws and rules in regards to classifications of criminal history, however nationwide criminal records go as far as 7 years. Some counties report both felony and misdemeanor violations while others, only felonies.

Criminal Check and Screening
It is importnat to access criminal history records from reliable sources for the purpose of screening an individual’s for employment, licensing. Employers and organizations are subject to potential liability under negligent hiring doctrines if they fail to exercise due diligence in determining whether an applicant has a criminal history that is relevant to the responsibilities of a job and determining whether placement of the individual in the position would create an unreasonable risk to other employees or the public. In addition to addressing this litigation risk, employers want to assess the risks to their assets and reputations posed by placing persons with criminal histories in certain positions. There also has been a growing use of criminal history screening in certain sectors of the economy related to counterterrorism efforts.

Fair Information Practice
Competing interests also enter the criminal background screening picture. Individuals have a strong interest in ensuring that fair information practices are followed when employers and other organizations obtain and use criminal history information to screen a person for employment or volunteer suitability. No one wants to be wrongly associated with someone else’s criminal record, particularly when applying for a job.

Background Screening for employers

Most private employers’ demand for criminal history background checks is currently met by private sector enterprises that provide professional background screening services and/or commercial databases that aggregate criminal records that are available to the public from government agencies. The commercial databases are not complete because not all states, and not all agencies within individual states, make their records available to such databases; nor does the FBI make its federal or state criminal records available to such databases. In addition, the information in the commercial databases may only be updated periodically. The commercial databases may also be missing important disposition information that is relevant to a conviction record’s use for employment suitability purposes, such as sealing and expungement orders or entry into a pre-trial or post-trial diversion program. Checks of these databases are based not upon positive, biometric identification (such as fingerprints), but upon personal identifiers such as names and other information that can help confirm a person’s identity. Nevertheless, these databases provide a source of information that is significantly broader than going to individual county courthouses in the counties where an applicant indicates that he or she has lived.

The private data providers and screening services are considered consumer reporting agencies under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and state consumer reporting laws. The activities of consumer reporting agencies in providing information on individual consumers are regulated under these federal and state laws. Some state consumer reporting laws are more restrictive than the FCRA.