Who is the source of criminal check data in the United States?
County, National and Federal Courts.
What is the process in the United States?
The requesting party will request the check from the ATS or their Zinc account.
- Automated instructions delivered to the candidate to upload a copy of their ID and some personal details in a dynamic webform
- Zinc submits the request to the authorities
- Zinc receives the results (digitally) and provides a signed digital report
- The candidate receives a text to say the process is complete.
What's the service covered on the check?
● The County Criminal Records Searches help find criminal court records such as felonies and
misdemeanours.
● Because the majority of crimes in the U.S. are tried in county courts, these searches are a
baseline for this search and federal court searches are included too.
● A Social Security Number (SSN) Trace verifies the input name is associated with the input SSN in a proprietary database, and provides an alias and address history for the name and SSN
● The searches are performed at more than 3,100 county criminal courts across the United States
by the Zinc team via online access and some in-person court contacts.
● National Criminal Database (NCD) Checks A National Criminal Database (NCD) Check is a check of a proprietary database, containing more than 1 billion records from counties, state
departments of corrections (DOC); state administrative offices of the courts (AOC).
● NCD also includes the National Sex Offender Registry (NSOR) Check, a check of state sex
offender registries from 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands
and many Native American tribes (including offender photographs, where available).
● Global Watch List Check, a check of national and international databases, including FBI Most
Wanted List, Interpol Fugitives List, Office of the Inspector General Health and Human Services
(OIG/HHS/SAM Exclusions List, and Office of Foreign Assets Control Specially Designated
National (OFAC SDN) List, and several state level Medicaid Sanctions lists.
What details are required to submit the check?
- Name.
- Date of birth.
- Address.
- Social security number
- Identity document (passport/ID card).
- Consent.
Where do I get results?
The results of the search are delivered directly to Zinc and the applicant on the Zinc report.
What is the expected turnaround time?
3-5 business days.
Privacy statement:
The details contained in this report should not be used as the sole reason for making a decision. Zinc Work Ltd is not liable for any inaccuracies or incompleteness in the information appearing in this report since it is provided to Zinc Work Ltd by third parties. This report has been produced for the purchaser of the report and Zinc Work Ltd will have no liability to loss.