Sunday, October 26, 2014

Online Check Of Public Criminal Records

By Claire Dowell


An effective measure performed by most companies and workplaces around the world regarding the selection of the most qualified employees is to scrutinize details about their past. This ensures optimal risk mitigation and potential liabilities that can be detrimental to the institution's integrity and track record. A potent document used for this deed is a person's arrest or criminal records.

What makes the aforementioned measures benefit so much from criminal records is because a person's records of arrest shows a compilation of his or her past dealings with the Law that includes minor infractions, misdemeanor charges, and grave felonies. Criminal records are also useful for examining the background of applicants for public office, volunteer welfare workers and professional licenses.

In the State of Florida, arrest records are disseminated, stored and taken care of by a central repository that is the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Division of Criminal Justice Information Services. State-wide criminal records are free to the public, whenever requested.

Criminal records are free to the public when requested. There are two ways to request for copies of a person's criminal record. The first option is to send and download the Criminal History Information Request Form from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Information about the arrest that must be indicated in the form are the person's complete name, any known monikers, the date of birth or the exact age, race, sex, and if known, the Social Security Number and the last known address. There will be a $24.00 fee charged per request. The completed forms, together with the payment in the form of a check or money order payable and a complete return address are afterwards sent to address of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Each request will be processed around five business days, excluding the postal delivery times.

Alternatively, you can pull out a records search online via the website of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Information that must be entered in this approach is the same as if you are filling out a Criminal History Request Form. Be sure to enter the details correctly to narrow down the search results and later on determine whether the information you entered matches with that of the ones found in the Computerized Criminal History databank .You can immediately print out the record that you are in pursuit of in this method. There is $24.00 fee charged per record searched. The payment for this service is via credit card. In addition, you cannot obtain certified copies of the criminal record, sealed information, expunged records and juvenile criminal history registers in this online approach.

Request forms will be returned to you in the event that a record is not found. The said form will be marked with the words, "FDLE found NO Florida criminal history based on the information provided. No criminal record check was conducted for other states or for the FBI." Furthermore, you can submit fingerprints of the person in question for positive identification.

We live in a contemporary world wherein everyone is in constant pursuit of ways and means to improve living conditions. The Internet, for instance has paved the way for convenient procurement of a handful of amenities, including public records retrieval. With the help of entities online the offer records retrieval services and the government service described above, you can get your desired results at the soonest possible time, and can definitely save you good amounts of time, effort and money.




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