Employee Criminal Background Checks
ARS will provide you with comprehensive criminal background checks to make certain that your workforce is protected. Our enterprise technology ensures criminal searches are routed efficiently and quickly to the appropriate jurisdiction – significantly reducing our client turn-around times. Report results are given in a detailed, clear and concise format.
County-Wide Criminal
The logical and accurate starting point is the county court as all cases originate from this jurisdiction. Open cases are also reported and generally include cases awaiting trial or charges for failure to appear on a pending case. Typically, this involves a physical visit to the courthouse to conduct the search. This search will include a minimum of seven years for both felony and misdemeanor court convictions. Our county searches consist of misdemeanor and felony searches in municipal, lower, district, circuit and superior courts.
State Criminal
Each state operates a central criminal history record repository that receives case information contributed by the courts and law enforcement agencies. These states compile the information into one central database. Some states may have a repository that is restricted access and therefore may not be available. Reported information is generally limited to seven years but older convictions will be reported if available and the state law allows.
Multi-State Criminal
A powerful virtually instant multi-jurisdictional search of hundreds of millions state and county criminal records. This database is compiled from counties, Department of Corrections (DOC), Administration of the Court (AOC), Department of Public Safety from across the country. Also included in each search are national and international terrorism sources such as OFAC. This is an effective tool for discovering additional jurisdictions where criminal offenses may have occurred outside of an applicant’s indicated residential and employment address history.
Included within the search is a global security screen which is a database compiled from lists provided by U.S. and various international governmental agencies of individuals who may be involved in terrorist activities, money laundering, illegal imports, fraud against government agencies, violations of federal banking regulations, and fugitives from justice.
Federal Criminal
A search of the Federal District Court for federal crimes such as embezzlement, bank robbery, and tax evasion.Recommended search parameters include all districts of residence in the previous seven years. Open cases are also reported and generally include cases awaiting trial or charges for failure to appear on a pending case.
National Sex Offender
The National Sex Offender searches a national registry of participating states. It accesses information from the U.S. Department of Justice Sex Offender Database and information may vary from state to state.
Canadian Province
Criminal Search (misdemeanor and felony) of the court system for the following provinces and territories of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon Territory.