TRUST & SAFETY
Why National Criminal Background Checks Are Important
At ACI Background Checks, we understand the importance of a comprehensive criminal background check. We help you build a team you can trust while mitigating risk and protecting your company’s reputation. By incorporating criminal record background checks into your hiring process:
- Protect your organization against liability claims
- Minimize risk and create a safe, secure workplace
- Safeguarding assets, employees, and customers
Our services help you maintain your organization’s reputation and trust within the community, enabling you to make fair decisions for hiring. We ensure your compliance with federal, state, local, and industry regulations, contributing to the development of public safety and security. Trust ACI Background Checks for all your background screening needs.
7 YEARS
is the typical timeframe for reporting records, although older ones may be included if they can be readily accessed and legally reported.
What You’ll Learn From Criminal Background Checks
A comprehensive criminal history search across national, federal, state, and county databases in the United States reveals crucial information about a candidate’s past.
- Uncover felony convictions, including murder, rape, kidnapping, arson, theft (values larger than $500), aggravated assault.
- Identify misdemeanor convictions like vandalism, trespassing, public intoxication, disorderly conduct, prostitution, and theft (values less than $500).
- Stay informed about pending criminal cases.
Additionally, our criminal record check may disclose adult incarceration history, arrests pending prosecution, active warrants, and infractions. Assess potential risks and make informed decisions with ACI Background Checks.
COMPLIANCE
Reviewing Criminal Search Results
Discover how ACI Background Checks empowers employers to conduct thorough criminal history record checks while upholding fairness, respect, and compliance with essential laws and regulations. Benefit from our integrated tools and streamlined workflows to maintain a compliant hiring process.
Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)
Ban The Box & Fair Hiring Laws
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) & Title VII
Your Organization’s Hiring Policy
TYPES OF SEARCHES
Common Types Of Criminal Record Searches
Nationwide Criminal Databases Search
Federal Criminal Court Search
County Criminal Court Search
Statewide Criminal Records Search
Sex Offender Registry Search
Domestic Watch List Search
Global Watch List Search
International Criminal Records Search
ACI Background Checks Helps You Make Smart Hiring Decisions with Criminal Background Checks.
Employment Background Checks Integrations
Our platform is already integrated with the top data providers, drug screening, and human resource management systems in the industry.
Applicant Tracking Systems
Many employers are using applicant tracking systems to manage background checks and will only use CRAs who are integrated with their ATS. We are likely integrated with the system you use today.
Drug Screening
Seamlessly integrate drug screening providers into background screening and applicant tracking activities. We are already integrated with the top national providers, including LabCorp™ and Quest Diagnostics™.
Applicant Tracking Systems Integrations
Drug Testing Integrations
What Our Customers Are Saying
I have professionally worked with ACI Background Checks for over 10 years. The company consistently upholds the highest level of professionalism and provides exceptional customer service and support. Their expertise in employment screening and compliance matters is comprehensive. I highly recommend ACI Background Checks due to their proven track record, unbeatable pricing, and outstanding turnaround times.
ACI Background Checks has consistently met our high standards for accuracy, timeliness, and support in providing a comprehensive range of background check services. Throughout my extensive experience in various government and private sector roles spanning over 15 years, ACI Background Checks has proven to be an invaluable resource. Their commitment to exceptional customer service, coupled with their unwavering integrity and transparent screening process, has earned my utmost confidence and highest recommendation.
I have been consistently impressed for over 15 years by ACI’s exceptional ability to meet my background screening needs with accuracy and reliability. ACI stands out for their unwavering commitment to integrity and transparency, ensuring that all reports not only meet but exceed the stringent standards set by the Fair Credit Reporting Act. I wholeheartedly recommend ACI Background Checks as the top choice for comprehensive and trustworthy background screening services.
Discover Simpler Background Checks with Trusted Results
Building a great team starts with ACI Background Checks, your trusted partner for the easiest end-to-end pre-employment background check workflow in the industry.
- Automated Workflows
Our automated workflows guide you seamlessly through a paperless process. - Simple To Understand
Easy-to-review results and clear record details, hiring becomes faster and simpler. - Worry-Free Results
Rest assured with worry-free results, as our advanced data engineering and industry-leading sources deliver reliable information.
Frequently Asked Questions
Insights on Criminal Background Checks for Employers and Volunteer Organizations
Enhance your decision-making process by utilizing ACI Background Checks, a reliable criminal background check service. Our comprehensive screening helps you evaluate the honesty, trustworthiness, and potential threat a candidate may pose to others. By taking proactive measures, you can safeguard your company assets, minimize risk, and steer clear of potential negligent hiring lawsuits. Trust ACI Background Checks to provide you with the crucial information you need.
Introduction
What is a criminal background check?
A criminal background check may search national, federal, state, and/or county criminal court databases to report information about a candidate’s criminal history, such as felony and misdemeanor criminal convictions, and any pending criminal cases.
Different types of criminal record checks may reveal different offenses, depending on the court record that is searched. For example, a search of one state’s criminal records database will only report criminal activity in that selected state’s criminal court system. However, employers may choose to search multiple states and counties based on where the candidate has lived, or if a nationwide search reveals criminal activity in more than one state.
What shows up on a criminal background check?
The information that shows up on a criminal background check can include felony and misdemeanor criminal convictions, and any pending criminal cases. Criminal background checks may also report history of incarceration as an adult, active warrants, and infractions. Infractions may only be reported if they are within the last seven years.
An arrest that did not lead to convictions may appear in some background checks as long as they are within the last seven years; ACI Background Checks excludes them in its screenings to conform to Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) guidelines.
Criminal background checks may also include a Sex Offender Registry check, which searches registries across all states to report where a candidate may be currently registered as a sex offender.
Some time limitations, based on state and federal laws, determine what can be reported legally on an employment background check.
It’s important to understand how to read a background check, and what the different terms and abbreviations mean. A criminal history report includes the name of the crime, disposition (conviction, non-conviction, or pending), and disposition date.
The following are examples of the types of records that may show up on a criminal history check:
(Type of Record: Examples)
- Felony Criminal Convictions: Murder, manslaughter, rape, kidnapping, arson, theft (values larger than $500), and aggravated assault
- Misdemeanor Criminal Convictions: Vandalism, trespassing, public intoxication, disorderly conduct, prostitution, and theft (values less than $500)
- Infractions or Violations: Jaywalking, littering, drinking in public, disturbing the peace, boating violations, building permit violations
Petty offenses that are typically punishable by fines but not jail time, and are not considered criminal offenses. Depending on the jurisdiction, infractions may or may not show up on a criminal history record, but under federal law they may only be reported if they are within the last seven years.
There are many different types of background checks, each of which uncovers somewhat different personal background information. It’s important for both employers and job candidates to understand what kind of information is included in each type of background check, and how that information can be used.
How do criminal record checks work?
If the employer is using a CRA, the applicant will be asked to provide their name, date of birth, and Social Security number, as well as give consent, as required by the FCRA. The CRA uses an individual’s personal identifying information to search public record criminal databases at the county, state, national or federal level to find any criminal records associated with the individual in the criminal justice system.
If a match is found, the CRA takes additional steps to ensure maximum possible accuracy before the candidate’s report is delivered to the employer who ordered it.
Get a criminal background check
ACI Background Checks makes employment screening easy. Our user-friendly dashboard, intuitive workflows, and built-in compliance tools help simplify the background screening process. Let us know how many checks you need, provide some information about your company, then select the pre-bundled package that fits for your needs.
All of our pre-bundled packages include a Nationwide Criminal Databases search and Sex Offender Registry search. We also offer options to customize your background checks with add-on searches, such as MVR checks, Education Verification, and Employment Verification, for a more complete background check.
Employers that use a background check company, such as ACI Background Checks, to run a pre-employment background check must follow federal, state, and even local laws that regulate employment screening. The federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) sets out requirements for consumer reporting agencies (employment screeners like ACI Background Checks), as well as rules that the employers who use the reports must follow.