Criminal Records

Criminal records are maintained in courthouses. You can use these records as a reference or as a resource material for your own use.

Courts handled different levels of criminal records from county, state and federal records.

County records are cases that occurred in a specific region or state. Most cases included are felony or misdemeanor cases.

A felony case is actually a serious crime with a year or more of imprisonment to death penalty. We are pointing here cases like battery, arson, illegal use and sales of drugs, theft, embezzlement, murder, rape, kidnapping and others. Contrary to felony is misdemeanor, which is a lesser criminal act such as vandalism, trespassing, prostitution, petty theft and others. Results from county criminal records can be obtained faster.

The criminal records that are compiled in federal records are usually drug-related cases or otherwise related to weapons. Bits of information here are hard to find because it is restricted. You can only get basic details especially because information about the person or witness is usually withheld. For delicate positions in the company, this federal record search is usually common.

Lastly, we have the cases maintained at the state court level.  These records are easily accessed on net. Though not all states would give you access on anything you want, they can still provide you some. It may either be through a free site or they may refer you to a paid site.

It is always good for anybody to look for criminal records to have better insights about the people you deal with. One way to help you get a fast result of criminal records is to supply a full name, address, Social security number and date of birth. You will never know what you are going to find out unless you give it a try.