Thursday, January 15, 2015

Public Criminal Records Online Free Check

By Claire Dowell


Every applicant for positions and rights for employment, immigration, identification, security clearance, professional licenses and adoption has to undergo series of rigorous scrutiny before acquiring them. This is done to ensure that any future liabilities will be alleviated or avoided. It is the responsibility of any approving institution to obtain background checks for such applicants by utilizing appropriate documents such as public arrest records.

A person's criminal records are excellent tools for this trade because they include all arrests, convictions, sentences and dispositions, including civil offenses, on record for that individual in a certain jurisdiction. The primary goal of this listing is to provide a comprehensive criminal history of that particular person. Background checks for immigration, identification, security clearance, issuance of professional licenses and adoption also make use of criminal records.

Policies concerning the distribution, archiving, and maintenance of these records vary from state to state. In the State of Texas, this task falls upon the able hands of the State Department of Public Safety, specifically in the Criminal History Records Office. All requests for arrest records across the state are catered in the said office. Persons who were put under arrest in the state are allowed to access and procure a copy of their own arrest record and can appoint an authorized proxy to do so in their behalf. Criminal history information is not open to the public, save for adjudication and conviction records. This is in observance of Section 522.023 of the Texas Government Code.

Acquiring Texas criminal records via the Department of Public Safety involves few simple steps and two approaches - the name-based criminal history search, and the fingerprint-based criminal history search. The former requires you to access the Crime Records Service section of the Department of Public Safety's official website. You must first create an account via the CRS section. Basic information such as a person's full name, maiden name and the exact birth date is required for the search. You will be charged $3.00 per individual name searched.

The fingerprint approach ensures more accurate results and can confirm the identity of the requesting party. First, you must make an appointment to the company tapped by the Department of Public Safety in providing electronic fingerprints. Such appointment can only be done online. At the same time, you must write a request that you are applying to obtain a copy of your criminal record. Have your fingerprints taken via this partner entity or obtain them via a fingerprint card duly approved by the same department. The standard payment required by the Department of Public Safety is $15.00 per request. If the services of the mentioned partner service provider are utilized, there is an additional $9.95 service charge. Lastly, mail these fulfilled requirements to the office of the Criminal History Records. The department will deal with your request within ten working days after they have received it.

An important value implanted in our nature as humans is to persistently seek out ways and means to improve life. A good portion of this need has been satiated in the 21st century by current advancements in technology, spearheaded by the Internet. Such needs have been partially subdued because the Internet has continuously provided man with information and almost all services. This has inspired government repositories, like the ones discussed above, and several private entities to put up online databases for public records. The goal for such actions is to allow requesting parties to obtain the records that they are seeking at the shortest amount of time possible, just after entering a few bits of information. In recent years, such endeavors have become the most popular search activity done over the Internet.




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