1. Criminal Monitoring: Keep your Workplace Safe!
Criminal Record Search is not just a passing corporate fad. It is crucial to a growing organization
that wants to keep its workplace, employees, funds and records safe. When you hire a new
person, it is not enough to merely verify his or her academic and work credentials. The theory
that criminals are the people with low IQs is true only foe who got caught. James C. Olson’s
research points out that there are enough lawbreakers with IQs of 132 or more to make your
hair stand on end.
While it might not be possible yet to peer into one’s psyche, professional agencies that offer
high-end Criminal Monitoring services allow you to trace one’s history for crimes and legal run-
ins for which one has been suspected or apprehended in the past. These include thefts in retail
stores, financial frauds, and civil cases, credit card defaults to more serious and even violent
crimes like sex offenses, murders and terrorism charges.
A good agency offering background checking services often checks a potential employee for:
 Social Security Validation: Thorough trace of one’s Social Security Number can reveal all
his aliases and addresses. It helps in mapping one’s criminal records and to check
whether one is authorized to work in the US or not.
 National Comprehensive Database Search: This database is drawn from various local
and count-level entities such as courts, police and departments of corrections. It also
includes running a scan through the National OFAC, Terror Watch lists and ‘Most
Wanted’ lists from the likes of the FBI and Interpol.
 National Sex Offender Search: It takes into cognizance sex offenses registered at the
Washington DC, all the 50 US states, Puerto Rico and Guam. Listings are updated
monthly.
 County as well as State-wide Criminal and Civil Court Records Search, and
 District and State-wide Federal Records Search.
Federal agencies like Coast Guard Random Selection asks candidates to clear all the specified
drug testing programs to ensure that they are not into addictions and substance abuse.
Employers may also want to get one’s motor vehicle driving records search if they are required
to drive on the job. Similarly, for hiring people for accounts and finance department, you may
want to have a look at their credit card histories and know if they have been accused of any
frauds earlier.

2. Criminal activity monitoring for current employees and volunteers is a good blanket cover
against unnecessary legal liabilities too.