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Criminal Records Verification

Criminal Records Search

Criminal Records SearchBackground screening increases employee quality and reduces liability and risk involving human resources issues surrounding employment, promotion and terminations.  Using the results of a criminal records search greatly increases the quality of the applicant you hire.  Protecting your company from applicants who have previous records that directly affect the position they are applying for is essential to the success of your company. Employee theft in the U.S. costs businesses more than $4 billion every year. Statistics provide that employee theft is responsible for approximately 30% of all business failures in this country.

County Court Records

What information is obtained? Our national network of courthouse researchers will perform a manual search for felony and misdemeanor records at the local county level. Liberty utilizes a national network of courthouse researchers to cover the more than 3,100 counties across the nation. Our researchers search both the Upper and Lower court records to discover any felony or misdemeanor charges in that jurisdiction. Our national turnaround time is 1.91 days.

The following items are covered in a county record search: subject name, date of search, search period, type of record, applicable charges, case number and final disposition.

Why perform this search? History has proven that previous criminal history is the greatest indicator of whether an individual has a propensity for further acts of violence and theft. Statistics show that 80% of convicted criminals are repeat offenders. Your employees are one of the most valuable parts of your company. Proper screening of new employees helps to ensure that you are not putting current employees at risk from an individual with a history of violence or theft.

Please note, County courts are wholly separate from Federal District courts.

Federal

What information is obtained? The U.S. district courts are the trial courts of the federal court system. The 94 U.S. judicial districts are organized into 12 regional circuits (map). There are two types of cases handled by federal courts, criminal cases and civil cases. Federal criminal charges are initiated by the government, usually through the U.S. attorney's office in coordination with a law enforcement agency. Individuals file civil cases, not the government.

Liberty searches the 94 federal districts found in the Unites States to discern any records available that fall under federal jurisdiction in the district specified. The following items are covered in a record search: subject name, date of search, search period, type of record, applicable charges, case number and final disposition.

Why perform this search? Protecting your company from applicants who have previous records involving tax evasion and embezzlement is essential to the success of your company. These are just two of the federal crimes that are uncovered in this search. Employee theft
costs U.S. business more than $4 billion every year. Statistics prove that employee theft is responsible for approximately 30 percent of all business failures in this country.

Please note that Federal District courts are wholly separate from County and State courts.

QuickCheck National – National Security File

What information is obtained? Quick Check National™ is an instant search that uses the candidate's full name and date of birth to search Liberty's data warehouse.  Most sources are updated monthly.

Sex Offender

What information is obtained? Liberty will use the candidate’s full name, and any aliases to search each state's respective Sex Offender Registry. This is available in 49 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam and select tribal territories. Please note that the following Las Vegas state sources contribute the following sex offender records: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Mesquite Police Department, Nye County Sex Offender Records, and Washoe County Sex Offender Records. Liberty provides a national search of these registries via our instant Quick Check National Criminal search.

Why perform this search? The individuals contained in these registries are known sexual offenders.

Statewide Criminal CheckStatewide

What information is obtained? Statewide searches and identity verification are available in select states where centralized systems have been put in place for each county court to report their data. Unregulated content and timing of court reporting affects the quality of the data, especially its completeness and currency. Liberty recommends that a statewide criminal check be used in conjunction with the county-level criminal records search. The statewide criminal search is not available in all states.

Why perform this search? History has proven that previous criminal history is the greatest indicator of whether an individual has a propensity for further acts of violence and theft. Statistics show that 80 percent of convicted criminals are repeat offenders. Your employees are one of the most valuable parts of your company. Proper screening of new employees helps to ensure that you are not putting current employees at risk from an individual with a history of violence or theft.

Government Security Watch Lists

Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)

Government Watch Lists for Job ApplicantsWhat information is obtained? Liberty will use the candidate’s full name, and any aliases to search the Office of Foreign Assets Control. The OFAC list identifies "Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons" with whom U.S. companies cannot have dealings, under penalty of law.

Why perform this search? Liberty will use the candidate's full name and any aliases to search the OFAC. OFAC's list identifies "Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons" with whom U.S. companies cannot have dealings, under penalty of law. See more information about government watch lists.

Patriot Act Screen

What information is obtained: Liberty will use the candidate’s full name, and any aliases to search each of the following watch lists:

Office of Inspector General (OIG) Sanctions

What information is obtained? U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, OIG, excludes certain individuals and entities from participation in Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal health-care programs. The OIG imposes exclusions on over 15,000 individuals and entities based upon the authority contained in Sections 1128 and 1156 of the Social Security Act. Liberty will check the sanction database, which is updated monthly from data provided by the OIG, and contains 18 sanction types, comprised of over 50 categories.

Why perform this search? Program payment cannot be made to any entity in which an excluded individual is serving as an employee, administrator, operator, or in any other capacity, for any services on or after the effective date of this exclusion. Liberty will provide sanction date, sanction type and a detailed explanation of the sanction.