Whatever your reason to get a free criminal background check is, good news is there are free methods to get an overview of someone's criminal history.
Maybe you want to check the person who's meant to baby-sit your kids, or you have your own business and want to check out a potential employee.
The first free method to get a criminal background check is to use your local newspaper.
Many papers publish all local arrests and convictions on their website.
So first of all find out if your newspaper has got a website and if they do, see if they also publish this information online.
Unfortunately, if the person you want to look up has lived in another county or state before, this method won't really help you.
To broaden your search now, use a search engine like Yahoo or Google.
Enter all the information you have about that person into the search box.
Put the name in quotes to improve the relevance of the results.
If you have any other information like state, address, etc.
enter it, too.
You will most likely get a lot of search results, so prepare to spend some time on digging through it.
If these methods failed, or if you aren't sure that you have found all the information you need, you may want to use a professional criminal background check service.
These services will provide you with a report on anyone in a matter of minutes.
You have to pay a small fee to get the full report, but it will include all felony and lesser charge arrests and convictions, any aliases the person uses, a complete address report, phone reports, a social security no.
verification, and more.
Furthermore, they will also check the person's name against the national sex offenders registry.
I highly recommend getting a professional report if the person you want to look up has any contact to you or your family.
You don't really want to miss crucial information, so for the sake of your family's safety, get a full professional report.