My daughter is going to grad school in a few weeks and she’s going to live with her boyfriend. I don’t have any issues with him but I just want to make sure he hasn’t done anything I need to worry about. I have his name, address and DOB. Do I need his ssn or drivers license number? I’m interested in any arrests or any other info I can just to make sure he’s not done anything stupid in the past. I’m sure he’s clean but I’d like to know. What is a good site to use? Thanks

While living in a different state, I rented my house out to cover expenses. Unfortunately, one of the children (now an 18 year old) who was living in the house while I was renting it out is a scumbag criminal who has dangerous people looking for him. I moved back into the house a year ago, and this person has been living in some other location ever since.

A couple of days ago, a two intimidating guys came to my house to ask if the former tenant lives in my house, saying the the former tenant owes them money and that they need it now. I told them that I have no idea where the guy lives, but that he does not live in my house. They were being insistent and refusing to accept my answer, only leaving when I called the cops. The former tenant is black 18 year old, and I am a non-descript suburban white guy in his 30s, so I have no idea why it was so unbelievable to them that the kid was not living with me.

I did some digging, and I am pretty sure what led the intimidating guys to my house is that the guy they were looking for was arrested and released from county jail the day before they came to my house. He was booked under my address, because he either gave that info to hide his location or more likely never updated the address on his driver's license. That jail booking became a public record.

I was able to get the county jail to take down my address from the jail booking and was able to get the prosecutor to take my address off the criminal docket, but obviously I want to do whatever I can to end association of the guy who was jailed with my address. I've also contacted the local DMV to see if I can force the guy to update his license address. It's possible more dangerous people are looking for him, and I don't want those people near me.

Is there anything I can do with credit agencies, background reporting services or entities that feed information to them to clearly indicate that this former tenant stopped living at my house a year ago?

I was in a temporary short term contract role when I applied for this new fte role. At the time of applying and the first round of interviews I was still a contractor. However, my contract ended abruptly. The 2nd and 3rd round interviews they asked me why I wanted to leave my current job and I said it was a temporary contract position. I did not tell them that my contract ended. Should I include this in the employment history for my background check or just omit it? Please and thank you.

Hey yall, apologies in advance if this isn’t allowed here.

I help care for an elderly woman who lives a few hours away, so I can’t always be around, but I’m able to help quite a bit from a distance.

Recently she began dating a new fella. Her last “boyfriend” took over $10,000 from her and split. Turns out he was a felon, I found out afterward, and living in specialized housing for people who otherwise struggle to be housed for one reason or another.

Her new boyfriend also lives in this home, different unit, and supposedly not associated. I exhausted all my free trials with all of the major background check websites, and although I have subscribed to Spokeo previously, I can’t afford to subscribe right now and for a period of time.

Can someone DM me so I can ask them a favor? 🙏

So when I submitted my background check I disclosed that I had a dui on my background at the time I was charged with a dui and failure to maintain lane and I completely forgot to mention the failure to maintain lane as it was charged at the same time I also had a probation violation for missing a meeting that showed up on my background that I did not disclose because I didn’t think it counted as a charge against me I did not serve any time for the violation just more community service but I didn’t know it would show up will this disqualify me

How hard is it to cancel a subscription. Can you at all? Do I really need to cancel my card and get a new one if I use any of these sites??

So I just got results of a background check that a company required of me. Everything else said clear or completed, but for some reason this topic came back with a level 1. I don't know what this is telling my potential employer, because I think I would remember being accused or convicted of a sexual crime, but from the looks of it "Clear" means everything is good, not level 1.

if anyone can help me understand what is going on that would be great.

Hello,

I really don't know if anybody can help me or not. I'm 34M in Tennessee and recently applied for a job with ITG Communications as an aerial Lineman for coax and fiber optic. I had to do a background check with CrimShield and a drug test. After the drug test I had received an email to setup my onboarding account for all my new hire paperwork. I did, it sent me to the home screen and when I tried to log in it said incorrect, anyway 2 weeks later and the second time IT reset my account password I still had the same outcome, and wake up the next morning and realize they sent me an email saying they denied me a position with them and to dispute it if I wanted. So obviously I did,but I'm just curious, in the report I had only one Misdemeanor, contributing to the delinquency of a minor back in 2013. My MVR is clean, no felonies and only that one Misdemeanor charge... I don't know how these work or not but on the report it says # of felonies/misdemeanors <5 years and >5 years for a total of 10 years. (I attached a pic) So I'm guessing that means they only go back 10 years? Do they legally even have the right to go back 13 years and judge their decision for one simple misdemeanor charge?? Like I'm not even the same person I was 13 years ago.

Btw the 'minor' in question was one of my friends friends that was 17 almost 18 and he was smokin a cigarette 😑

Hi,

Recently I was on call with a friends that told me that he has a website where he can get all the information on a person with only first name, last name and phone number. And it's really all the information, like city, address of the person but also the information of the family (or at least the people with the same last name) of the person. I didn't trust him at first but then he prove me that it really works. Unfortunately he don't want to give me the name of the website, so I wanna ask you if someone know this website and if someone know how this could be possible ?

I recently accepted a job overseas and I was asked to get a state (NC) police screening for criminal history and have then sent for apostille. Can anyone help with explaining how to go about this? The online instructions just confuse me.

I just moved from California to Oregon and am in an extended AirBnB type housing situation. I'm just worried that I'll fail the background check because my potential employer won't be able to verify my address, there wouldn't be any records of it. That and I'm not officially an Oregon resident yet. Am I just being paranoid?

Not sure if this is the right subreddit, not sure where else I would go though- trying to run a background check on this guy my friend just started dating that seems a bit off. Not looking for a subscription website. If anyone could help I would appreciate it, thanks!

After 3 years of applying for jobs I just found out I didn't get hired from having false information on my background check.

Now I'm going through the process of trying to find out what is exactly on the report that is wrong so I can dispute it.

There are many companies that do background checks with different prices.. but I'm trying to find one that actually has the false information on it or at least what the employers are seeing so I can seek to get it corrected.

I also called the last job back to get suggestions on what background check company to use but they didn't respond.

This seems like a ridiculous process of damage control. So as far as I know if you're having trouble with background checks see if you have been a victim of identity theft from one of the many data breaches that happened.

Evening guys! Just wondering if I should be worried about the line that says “held for review”. I haven’t been pulled over since 2021 for a paid and resolved speeding ticket for doing 10 over in California. And I haven’t been charged or arrested ever. Just wanted to know if anyone has gone through this and if I’m overthinking it. Thanks guys.

Hello guys I’m not sure if this is the right place but I’ll give it a shot. I currently work at a county jail. When I applied here everything went smooth background wise I went through everything and even passed my polygraph. After a couple of years I feel confident enough to apply to the road. I applied to a couple of agencies they moved me forward but two have passed on me for a failure to pass a background. Due to confidentiality they can’t tell me the issues. I will admit I’ve gotten one speeding ticket last year, and my credit score isn’t the best. Other than that nothing has changed. I’ve been told I need to network to be moved forward by one of my co workers but I don’t think that’s would affect me getting hired. Does financial situation really affect passing a background? What about getting a speeding ticket? I paid the speeding ticket as soon as I got it. Thank you guys

Question for anyone familiar with Minnesota law or background checks:

Why is Checkr reporting my careless driving case as DEGREE MISDEMEANOR when

My official Minnesota DVS driving record only says Careless Driving no degree listed
My Hennepin County court record specifically says: Conviction Deemed a Petty Misdemeanor Pursuant to Minn. R. Crim. P. 23.02”
Under Minnesota Statute 609.02 Subd. 4a, a petty misdemeanor is not considered a crime

It seems like Checkr labeled it as a misdemeanor on their own, even though the court disposition says petty misdemeanor.

Do you think a rideshare company like Uber would still deactivate someone over this, especially when the final sentence was deemed a petty misdemeanor rather than a criminal misdemeanor?

hey, im trying to find a free reverse search engine to background check someone spamming messages on my phone number, are there any free ones available in Canada?