ChoicePoint National Criminal File

Instantly expand the depth and breadth of your background check with our fast, comprehensive, nationwide criminal record search.

Using the ChoicePoint National Criminal File search, you can quickly search a database containing criminal records from across the country for information related to your candidates.

Since this automated database search includes records gathered across all 50 states, you can potentially uncover criminal records that a candidate may be trying to hide by excluding an old address on their application or resume.

Also, when used in combination with a more detailed county courthouse search, the ChoicePoint National Criminal File search helps to provide you with access to the most comprehensive data available.

The ChoicePoint National Criminal File quickly searches records contributed by data repositories that include (but are not limited to):

• Fugitive file and government watch list
• State and county criminal record repositories
• ChoicePoint proprietary criminal records
• State departments of corrections
• Administrative offices of the court

Success Story

A large national company processed the following background searches on a prospective employee:

• A two-county criminal search
• A ChoicePoint National Criminal File search

The individual county searches uncovered no criminal records. However, the ChoicePoint National Criminal File search returned a charge of first degree murder while committing or attempting to commit criminal sexual conduct.

The prospective employee was sentenced to life in prison in 1976, was paroled in February 2002, and will remain on parole for the rest of his life. The crime was committed in one of the individual counties searched as part of the two-county search; however, the court had no records prior to 1989.