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In most instances many people at some stage will need to check a person’s history out, even from a personal point as one cannot be too careful nowadays with all the criminal activities taking place globally. Especially if you own your own company and have to employ people from time to time, you need to conduct a search and check your prospective employees court records to make sure they do not have any criminal records or other offenses in order to avoid possible harm brought by that person with a criminal history.

If you go online there are several websites that offer free searches both nationally and internationally. You will have to search by state as these records do not come up by name only. As you can imagine there are thousands of people with the same name worldwide. For example if you are looking for a person’s records that live in Miami then you would look at the court sites in state Miami first.

Knowing which state the person belongs to could help to narrow your search to an exact place such as Miami, and you can then begin searching the criminal as well as civil courts for records on that specified person. You can also lodge a search at the court house if you don’t have time to sit and search online. Firstly you need to locate the websites that offer free searches for court records and then you will have to supply information such as the person’s name, address, and other types of search criteria in order to find out if they have any records.

For instance if you are about to hire new staff, you can check out all the applicants and should any of them come up with a red mark against their name, then you can conduct a full background check. You can then do an in depth search and make sure the person has not got any serious charges against them. Once you have a full record of the person you will be able to see what offenses the person has as well as the dates of the offenses when they were committed.

When hiring people as employees, the employers need to make sure that their potential employees have a clean record as well as they are truly as what they claim to be. Many companies lose millions due to theft and to hiring people that are not credible and that have criminal court records. This can be avoided if one does a background check. You can also make a decision to hire someone that may have an offense but that does not violate company policy. Such kind of records could be carried out online at no cost, while you may also choose a fee-based website to make such search since the service may be more considerate.