Clients who have seen the online “Nationwide criminal background check, $69” come-ons sometimes ask why we won’t ever say that someone has no criminal record.
They also wonder why doing a proper criminal check in even a single state costs more than $69.
This is why:
Unless you are tapped into law-enforcement databases (which if you aren’t law enforcement, you shouldn’t be), you need to look for criminal records either by state or sometimes, by county. We once looked at a prominent chief executive and found a whole bunch of drunk driving convictions in his recent and not-so-recent past. They were in counties where he lived or worked, including one in the county where he went to college.
