Everything You Need to Know About an Alabama Criminal Records Search

Whether you’re hiring a new secretary or looking for a new tenant for your rental property, you need to know exactly who you’re dealing with. And since criminals aren’t likely to tell you all about their shady past, you need unbiased, detailed, factual information that will help you decide whether or not this person is someone you’re willing to make a part of your life.

Luckily, you can find out everything you need to know with an Alabama criminal records search!

How does the process work?

First and foremost, it’s something that needs to be left to the professionals. Specifically, it’s something that only a licensed private investigator can handle because they have access to things that simply aren’t available to the general public.

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What kind of results can you expect from a good Alabama criminal records search?

– Thorough research

Licensed private investigators have access to the Alabama sex offender registry (which includes law enforcement agency filings from Baldwin, Chickasaw, Cullman, Escambia, Jefferson, Lee, Madison, Marshall, Mobile, Montgomery, Morgan, Shelby, and Tuscaloosa Counties), the Alabama Department of Corrections’ records, Alabama criminal court records, and county level records. In other words, they have access to everything that a member of law enforcement has access to!

The good investigators will go through each of these sources by hand, and they’ll create a report for you that includes:

– The date of a felony arrest, if the arrest resulted in a conviction

– The charge resulting from that arrest

– The case number for the incident

– The disposition for each felony conviction

– Details about the crime committed

– The date they were released from prison

– Traffic offenses

What if you want information about misdemeanors and felonies, regardless of whether the person was convicted?

In that case, you’ll need a countywide criminal arrest search. There are more details at the county level that a licensed private investigator can dig up.

– A quick turnaround

Good licensed private investigators know how to be thorough, while also working as efficiently as possible. Yes, doing each search by hand takes longer than those websites you see that offer instant results. However, those websites aren’t nearly as accurate! Typically, they pull information from old databases — meaning you’re not getting the full story. Even worse, your odds of getting a false-positive from one of these websites are high.

Instead, a good private investigator will take the information you’ve provided and cross-reference it with the records. That means you’ll only get information that pertains to your specific person. Even better, you’ll get it quickly. (For example, here at Docusearch, we can run an Alabama criminal records search and get you the results within one business day.)

– A lengthy history

Not only will licensed private investigators be able to provide you with newer information than what’s sitting in those outdated databases, they’ll also be able to work backwards. For example, here at Docusearch, our Alabama criminal searches go back 10 years so that you can see if you’re dealing with a career criminal or a one-time offender.

The only thing you CAN’T get from one of these searches is juvenile or sealed court records. NO ONE has access to those, so don’t fall for some slick website that promises to give them to you!

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– Professional service

Good licensed private investigators will be happy to answer all of your questions over the phone, both before and after your search. That’s a big difference from those instant websites!

In fact, these websites usually aren’t run by people with investigators’ licenses. Instead, they’re simply data aggregators who purchase old information, connect it to their computer system, and spit it out within seconds — without checking to see if it’s accurate or up-to-date. Imagine the important details you could miss out on if you relied on one of these services!

Making things worse, these services typically cost more than you think. They’ll either force you into paying for a subscription, or they’ll promise you that doing an Alabama criminal search is free — but then they’ll charge you to actually see the results.

Good investigators don’t work that way. They’ll tell you upfront what the search fee will be, and they’ll never ask you for another dime.

What kind of information does a licensed private investigator need to do a proper Alabama criminal court records search?

Not much. Here at Docusearch, we only need the name and date of birth for the person in question. If you have the person’s Social Security number, that’s helpful — but we can work without it. As a result, you don’t have to waste your time asking people for everything under the sun. Just a few basic details are all you need. In fact, they’re so basic that the person in question won’t even know you’re doing a criminal records search!

Ready to find out more about prospective employees, tenants, business associates, and even romantic interests? Contact the team at Docusearch today or place your order at Alabama Criminal Records Search!