Finally, Online Criminal Records Are Available
Sure, online criminal records have been around even before the internet was made available to the general public, but in the same way, these databases have been available only to law enforcement agencies around the globe. Thus, unless you were then connected to Interpol, the CIA, and their affiliates and counterparts, you were left in the dark.
However, with the freedom of information recognized and given much value nearly the world over, especially here in the US, these online criminal records are finally being made available to the public. Thanks to security conscious and enterprising individuals who took their time and money to gather all these data, computerized and then uploaded them, ordinary civilians like you and me can now use these for whatever legal purpose it may serve us.
The best resources
Of course, the sources for these online criminal records databases are the files from the courts, police and other concerned law enforcement agencies. Thus, we can be assured of these being duplicates of official records. These were of course, legally acquired, otherwise the websites offering access to these online criminal records would be immediately shut down.
Just to give a general picture, millions of records from different government agencies all over the US have been computerized or formatted and systematized for ease of access and viewing. These really makes it easier for us since viewing online criminal records is obviously less time consuming than having to go to the different government agencies themselves and processing requests to access their records sections and archives.
At minimal cost
Good things are rarely free, and since the making available of these online criminal records took a lot of time, effort and resources it is only understandable that it would also entail costs for us who wish to subscribe to these services. There are websites that offer rock bottom prices, and some even are ‘free’ but in my experience, these usually lead to dead-ends, or merry-go-rounds in the sense that their databases are severely lacking in information.
It is good to know that reputable online companies run websites that offer access to online criminal records for a reasonable fee which I think may well be the industry standard of around $30 a year for full access, and $3 for a short subscription of around 3 days.
These options obviously consider the differences between those who find the need to run searches in online criminal records regularly like those who are in the business of security, recruitment and employment, or the everyday individual who just wants to check someone of interest.
