legal advice

You probably ended up here because you have someone you are suspicious about. Someone gives you the willies, or you caught them acting suspiciously, or maybe you just have a gut feeling. It could be a neighbor, employee, tenant, landlords, childcare provider or even someone you are dating. The fact is that for one reason or another you are sensing that you or your loved ones are in possible danger. So you head to the Internet to search for sites to do free criminal background checks, and over and over you are told that you can get free background checks on this site or that but nothing turns up

The Shocker

Here's the truth, you can get free background checks but it won't be easy. And this is why you have felt misled by so many sites. However this is not the real shocker, the real shocker is the amount of time and resources it will take to do a proper background check on your own at no cost. You will have to cross-reference and check the various leads you find on the net, and then you will have to visit your local courthouse to get accurate arrest and criminal records. This is all very time consuming to say the least and it will take you upwards of a few weeks to get approval to access your court documents.

The fact is that there are sites that do this kind of service for you however it costs them to stay in business. The real deal sites maintain huge databases with sophisticated software that mines the private court records and cross references to insure a correct identity match. The kinds of quick and accurate results can simply never be had for free.

But The Flashing Banner Said...

This means that yes you have been lied to, and all of those sites promising unlimited background checks at no cost are a farce. Sure you may be allowed to run a very basic search that yields very vague info as a teaser, but you will end up paying a fee, sometimes too large of a fee, to get the information you need for your safety.