Criminal record lookups can be used by anyone from landlords, employers to even people that you are dating to find out about your criminal past. Criminal records are an important part of a person’s profile and are used by these people to make decisions such as whether to do business with them or even to go out or date the person.

The information that shows up in the criminal record search mainly depends on where you are looking for the information. It entirely depends on the city, state or even county that the person you are looking for resides. In some states it will put up everything, whether they were convicted or not, in other localities, it will pull up arrests and other charges that were brought up on the person. You could also find out if the person has charges pending and whether or not they have been acquitted of those charges.

Any charge will show up, even traffic offenses, as long as they have not been expunged from the record or taken off. Different localities have different time frames for when the information is taken off of their record.

Finding the date of arrest, conviction status annd what the prosecutor decided to do with the case (pursue it or dismiss) will all show up on a criminal backgroound check. If the person was convicted and paid a fine, the status will change to convicted and will show up on the report. It will also show if the person recieved any kind of probation.

Criminal records show more than just felony offenses, sexual offenses, misdemenours, and citations show up on the report. Also, twenty years of other information such as telephone numbers, addresses and even marriage records will show up in the report. Court warrants, tax liens (federal and state), any kind of judgements, bankruptcies, and even things such as tatoos that were noticed when the person was incarcerated. The report will also include the person’s relatives, any names they have used in the past and even people that they worked for.