Criminal Record Inquiries

Multijurisdictional Criminal

A Multijurisdictional criminal record search, also known as a Nationwide or National criminal record search, is a fantastic starting point for any background investigation.

Multijurisdictional criminal record searches use data from county courts across the country to get a wide view of a subjects’ criminal history.

CI’s multijurisdictional criminal inquiry contains over 800 million records from US counties and territories.

Cursory Indicator New York

Cursory Indicator New York is a New York state criminal record search that is comparable to the very costly NYS OCA statewide search.

Cursory Indicator New York has been proven to be more effective than running county court criminal record searches in New York.

Learn how you can start saving on NYS criminal records checks today!

County Criminal

A county criminal record search is highly recommended as a minimum criminal record search to ensure the discovery of any misdemeanor or felony charges that may have been brought against a subject.

Note that in New York State, county-level searches reveal felonies only and will not reveal “minor” crimes considered misdemeanors.

For this reason, CI does not recommend that county-level only searches be performed in New York.

State Criminal

Generally, state criminal record searches are performed on a few states that have somewhat thorough results.

A few of the acceptable state criminal searches are in New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Vermont.

Outside these states, CI prefers to go directly to the county in question. We believe this is the best practice for state criminal record searches.

Federal Criminal

A federal criminal record search is an important step for eliminating your liability for negligent hiring. 

Federal criminal searches often reveal serious violations of federal law that state or county searches do not deliver.

International Criminal

CI submits international criminal record searches through various international criminal record vendors, who are experts in foreign court procedures.

Our vendors have established vast networks of contacts in the international courts which allow CI to return records from all six foreign continents as well as Mexico, Canada, and Puerto Rico.

National Sex Offender Registry (Dru Sjodin)

The National Sex Offender Registry offers a good starting point for investigations, but it does not contain all available information on applicants.

Sex offender registries categorize offenders into three levels, the first being the least severe, and the third being the most severe.

The National Registry only contains information on level 2 and 3 offenders. Level 1 offender information is not public and is not stored in the National Registry.

Sex Offender Registry (State Specific)

CI recommends that you conduct a Sex Offender Registry inquiry in every state the subject has lived in, and by every name the subject has used, within the previous seven years.

Using the state specific registry is the only method to obtain level 1 information on an applicant.

Normally, level 1 information has to be verified orally, but we have a direct relationship with multiple state’s registries, so we will always be able to verify quickly.

Department of Corrections

The Department of Corrections (DOC) is a government agency that is responsible for overseeing the incarceration of individuals who have been convicted of crimes.

The DOC maintains a database of information about individuals who are incarcerated, including their name, inmate number, date of birth, charges, and sentence.

Federal Bureau of Prisons

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is a federal agency that is responsible for the custody and care of federal inmates.

The BOP's Inmate Locator is a tool that allows you to obtain information about federal inmates.

The search results include the inmate's name, BOP number, institution, sentence length, release date, and other information.

Cumulative Inquest

A Cumulative Inquest inquiry is similar to CI’s multi-jurisdictional criminal record inquiry, which searches the applicant information against the largest compilation of adverse data available.

However, a Cumulative Inquest is only run once per name, it does not obtain all past names like Origin.

The most common use cases for a Cumulative Inquest are when you are required to have multiple sets of multi-jurisdictional data in order to hire an applicant.

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