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Performing Florida Criminal Records Check Online

By Claire Dowell


Part of the basic procedures implemented by companies and workplaces with regards to ensure that potential risks and hazards are mitigated and averted is to examine a person's background history. Such measures can be satisfactorily and effectively accomplished by obtaining the prospective employee's records of arrest or criminal records.

A person' records of arrest contain every concurrent and past arrests and charges towards a person in a particular jurisdiction, from minor violations to charges for the most heinous felonies. This vast source of information is the reason such documents are utilized for background history checking. Besides regular employment, background checks for candidates for public office positions, volunteer workers, and applicants for professional licenses.

In the State of Florida, arrest records are disseminated, stored and taken care of by a central repository that is the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Division of Criminal Justice Information Services. State-wide criminal records are free to the public, whenever requested.

Florida's central repository offers two methods for arrest records free to public. The first one involves mailing a Criminal History Information Request Form to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Such forms are downloadable from the website of the said department. Requests must be sent with as much details about the person you are pursuing as possible. Examples of this information include the person's complete name, any known aliases, the date of birth or age, race, sex, and if available, the present address and Social Security Number. The accomplished forms must be sent together with a check or money order payable of $24.00 and a return address, as per Department of Law Enforcement policies. Requests are normally processed within five working days.

Florida arrest records are also available online from the database of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. It is a self-service application that requires as much information you can provide in order to yield more precise results, and make the decision of whether or not the information you are pursuing matches with what is displayed in the Computerized Criminal History file. The advantage of this approach is that you can immediately print out results after positively identifying them. However, certain types of criminal records such as certified copies, sealed information, expunged records and records of juvenile crimes are not available in this search application.

If the record you are looking for is not found, the Criminal History Information Request Form will be returned to you and is marked with the official statement, "FDLE found NO Florida criminal history based on the information provided. No criminal record check was conducted for other states or for the FBI."

The constant pursuit of convenience has been an important influence in the creation of online databases for public records, like the ones described above. Solutions like these are time-, effort-, and money-saving activities, because you can access a wide range of results and obtain them at the soonest possible time, right in the comfort of your own home.




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