Today, getting an employment criminal background check on job applicants becomes a more popular and often times used procedure.
  By doing this check, you can make sure whomever you hire is a honest person and you will know what to expect of them.
  Let us take a look at it more closely.
  First of all, you may go ahead and launch a free employment criminal background check online.
  You may find there is certain information available to public.
  However, you have to be very careful about using or trusting it, because lately there have been a significant increase in bringing action on employers for unlawful use of information on their job applicants.
Therefore, by all means, get advice from your lawyer first.
  The second issue about such free information is that it may not be accurate.
  For example, if your job applicant has a common name, you may get the wrong person's data.
  Now, where are you to turn for more employment criminal background check ups on your job applicants?  You may find such information in local criminal or civil court databases, or in registered sex offenders database.
  You may also run a state criminal record database search.
All these searches will give you some, but not complete information regarding your possible employee criminal background.
  To get more reliable data you would have to turn to a private professional agency, where they can do a more thorough employment criminal background check and provide you with information from all over the country, that is if your job applicant has moved around many times.
This information would be a more reliable one for making your final decision on employment and can be crucial if you are hiring someone to take a public or let's say a childcare position.