Background checks are a common request among our customers. While other companies rely on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), Ryan Staffing uses a local company to run what we believe to be the most efficient background check.
Sure, the FBI fingerprint cards are a national collection of criminal convictions. However, there is a big hole in that system. For the IAFIDS to be complete, every police station needs to use those fingerprint cards, police need to be regularly submitting cards to the FBI and someone at the FBI needs to enter the cards into their system. Relying on the FBI to enter the cards alone can take months.
Keith Lampe runs his company Infolynx Systems in Northeast Ohio and that's who Ryan Staffing trusts. What Lampe's program does is it searches the 120 different Ohio courts that have online public access, the Ohio sexual offenders database and the Ohio Departement of Corrections database. Because court systems make their records available online in order to meet open record laws, these are the most up-to-date, efficient records of criminal history.
"If you were in county court yesterday, and somebody did a search on you today, then you're going to find that record with our search," Lampe said.
Background checks are never 100 percent because to be that accurate, an employer would need to search every court system in the world, Lampe said. That's just not practical.
Lampe runs his program, which will come up with a list of every hit a query gets. He then pulls that information so that users can view it on Infolynx, and he provides the link to the court database where the record can be found.
"When businesses hear 'nationwide record search,' they think that is going to be every record that there is. The reality is, the best way to get the most information from the primary source, which is the individual court systems," Lampe said.
Sure, you could go to the Trumbull County Clerk of Courts Web site or the Portage County Clerk of Courts Web site or where ever it is you want to look. But if you embark on that task alone, without the resources that Lampe has with his search engine, it will take a significant amount of time. Lampe searches hundreds of these databases in minutes, or about the amount of time it would take an individual to search one court.
Legality is another thing to consider when deciding what background check method is best. Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act and the Federal Bankruptcy Act, it is illegal to discriminate against a prospective employee based on bad credit.
It is also illegal to to base an employment decision on age, race, sex, religion, national origin or a disability.
Check out this link for more information on federal background check laws.
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