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I HAVE SEEN REFERENCES TO NATIONAL or NATIONWIDE CRIMINAL RECORD CHECKS. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

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I HAVE SEEN REFERENCES TO NATIONAL or NATIONWIDE CRIMINAL RECORD CHECKS. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

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This usually means that the agency offering the service is able to check criminal records in any county in the US, but not ALL in one shot. There is no legal way that one can check the national FBI NCIC database of criminal history records without congressional authorization. A national check of major newspaper and wire services databases for news articles reflecting conviction information will only turn up a small fraction of existing records. However, there is a database that consists of mainly felony convictions and sex-offender registry information that is available (see our National Criminal check for only $18.75). It consists of sex offender registries from about 32 states that is updated generally on a 1-2 months basis plus mostly felony conviction records and some misdemeanor records from about 37 states. This is a very useful database, but ONLY in addition to running a normal county criminal record check in the jurisdictions where a person has lived or worked. That is because

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