Infractions you may have made years ago still linger in searchable public records that anyone can find. Every get pulled over? Ever been arrested? Convicted of a crime? Or even just been given a speeding ticket? Anyone has the right to search Public Records, and that includes you!

Okay, so we ALL have the right to Public Record searches. This is true, you can absolutely do free background checks. So then why should you use a service like CheckPeople instead? That’s a great question, that deserves a great answer…

Incredibly Easy Results with CheckPeople

What are some of the many benefits of using a service like CheckPeople to perform your background checks instead of the frustrating free services available? CheckPeople is plugged into all searchable databases, and have created easy to use tools to access the information in a fast and easy manor! Here is some of the personal information you can expect to find when using CheckPeople:

Birth Records

People lie… a lot! One of the most common things people like about is their age. A lot of people, for various reasons, also use an alias. You can verify someone’s full name and birthdate using CheckPeople!

Address Information (Past & Present)

You should know your address by heart. We are sure you do. But how often do you think about how easy to is for someone else to ALSO know your address by heart? Not only your current address but also your past addresses as well.

That’s what you can expect when you see the location history in your CheckPeople report. This is also useful for:

• Reverse address lookups. Get to REALLY know your neighbors.
• Find distant relatives and get in touch!
• Crime rates (census)
• Top destinations (census)

Jobs & Education

Find out where someone attended and graduated from school. Find out if someone is currently employed. Vet new people in your life before you meet them in person.

Social Media & Online Profiles

Some of us have been around the internet long enough to have used more than a few social media services.

If you were guaranteed $500 on the spot if you could list every profile you have ever made on every social media service, would you be able to do it? What about a dating site? There have been more than a few lonely nights in the past for most of us. If you were around in the early days of the internet you probably had a blog… of course you had a blog, we ALL had a blog. If you couldn’t do it; If you couldn’t list everything you have ever done. Don’t feel too much shame. Most of us can’t.

We hear stories every day about the shock people experience when running their own name in CheckPeople search.

Pro Tip: Do reverse email searches on current as well as old email addresses. Often you find a lot of hidden “gems”. And by gems I mean stuff that really should remain hidden!

As you read this sentence to yourself, you will most likely find that you are just now learning that your “secret” dating profiles, are not really so secret. In fact, you’d be in the majority if you were just now learning that these profiles are exposed to the whole world. Including potential new employers.

Here are just a few of the social media profiles that CheckPeople can find:

• Facebook (Secret 2nd profiles)
• Pinterest (interests)
• Amazon (Reviews & wish lists!)
• LinkedIn
• Vimeo
• YouTube
• Blogs and personal websites
• Dating profiles
• And much more!

Criminal Records

We are constantly inundated with stories about how something in someone’s criminal record from years and years ago cost them a potential job. It is always good going in, knowing exactly what anyone doing a search on you would find. Get in a stupid fight in college? Maybe forgot to pay a ticket in another state before you moved? Things happen, we all make mistakes. For most of us, our mistakes don’t follow us for the rest of our lives. So know before you go!

Sex Offender Registry

Every US state is required to maintain an up-to-date sex offender registry. Check your neighborhood and local area for sex offenders. Include it in background checks you do.

Oh… and brace yourself before doing the search. There are more out there than you thought!

Federal Licenses

Someone new in your life claiming to be a bit more than what they appear to be? Maybe an airline pilot, or a doctor you swiped right on sound almost too good to be true? Federal licenses, like those you would need to be an airline pilot, a doctor, a lawyer or even pharmacists are all a matter of public record. In fact, you can even get details from their certificates and get license numbers.

Is CheckPeople a Legitimate Service?

You can spend a lot of time and an unusual amount of your own energy in trying to piece your background together on your own using free public record searches. It is a lengthy and frustrating processes that we have simplified through many, many, MANY (George in I.T. asked me add more “Many’s” than that, but I have my limits, George…) hours of programming to interface with all the searchable databases and bring you easy to use tools.

While we do not offer a free Background Check, CheckPeople offers a secure and confidential service you can count on that gets you immediate results.

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Vermont Lawmakers’ Emails Are Off-Limits

Public documents may include email messages, but if those email addresses are private, you’re out of luck— even if it’s an email from a government official. Government staff members are needed to use their government email accounts only for company reasons; however, there is no way to track if they are using private email for company.

Louisiana Says No Minors Allowed

Louisiana’s is the only government restricting government documents by age. You must be a legal adult and also have access to government documents. This could impede, for instance, Louisiana’s diligent efforts for a major college task, high school pupils.

New York Limits Open Meeting Minutes Access

Open conference regulations prevail in many countries so you can demand minutes of representatives meeting. While a portion of the government record, a couple of other nations prohibit open conference minutes, New York performs by its own laws. You can demand new York agenda items and accounts, but particular minutes and telephone messages may be rejected. Ultimately, you’re at the mercy of the specific custodian of records, because New York lists particular documents you can request, but it doesn’t prohibit open gatherings.

Massachusetts Loves Exemptions

Massachusetts may be the most discreet of all U.S. nations. In their public records legislation, this country involves about 70 government exemptions. You can apply for government documents, but open-eyed communications, political agendas, and much more may stay invisible. It’s a 1973 holdover, and it’s still an impact.

Florida’s Sunshine Law

Thanks to Florida’s 1995 “Sunshine Law,” anyone can demand government records, whether they are emails, physical documents, minutes of the conference, or pictures that are deemed, official. Reasonable exemptions include victims ‘ names and addresses. Otherwise, there’s almost anything to grab. And if authorities fail to react to a petition, the implications could be costly, as shown after numerous litigation in government documents.

Oregon Needs Some Details

Oregon may be Florida’s polar reverse when it comes to government documentation legislation. While Florida is an open book with Sunshine Law, authorities in Oregon want to learn how to use the data you’re seeking. In one event, a MuckRock customer presented his application to the Portland Police Bureau, receiving a petition from the PPB to address three questions on how he intended to use the data to waive the premium. Otherwise, he’d have to prepaid $30 for his petition for government documents. This is not the only example where seeking government records in Oregon was a problem: Journalist Beth Slovic lately battled (and lost) a two-year legal fight to obtain access to some of Portland’s government college system’s private files.

Checkpeople.com is Where You Should Start Your Public Records Search?

So, what can you, as a citizen, do with all these embarrassing legislation? Start searching your government documents online, then check into appropriate legislation on government documents in your state to see what to do next.

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Browse the CheckPeople blog for more ideas about how to use people search engines more effectively in your long-last family investigations, as well as other searches.

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Why Conduct a California Inmate Search

There are a few common reasons why someone may have cause to conduct a California inmate search. In some cases, friends and family members may not be notified of a person’s arrest. Imagine that your cousin suddenly goes missing, and you hear through the grapevine that they have been arrested. You can’t simply demand answers from the next law enforcement offer you see. The bureaucratic red tape that makes up each judicial system is complex and difficult to navigate. It can be incredibly frustrating for anyone worried about the wellbeing of someone they love.

Victims of crime may also want to know exactly where the perpetrator in their case is being held, but in a state as large and as populated as California, victims don’t always get the updated information that they deserve. There are many advocates working to make California inmate searches easier so that victims of assault, burglary or other upsetting crime may get some peace of mind from learning that the person responsible is behind bars five counties away.

What Makes the Search Difficult

In December of 2017, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation reported there were 130,263 people in their custody.¹ And that’s just one department. There are more than 60 county jails, and numerous private, state, and federal prisons and correctional facilities throughout California. Nobody has the time to call every single one, but there are some online tools that can help narrow your search.

Where to Start

• The State

Most people who are incarcerated in California end up going to one of 35 state institutions. We recommend beginning your search on the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) website. You’ll be asked to enter either the person’s inmate number or their last name. You can also narrow your search by entering their first and middle names. If you happen to only know the inmate’s first name and aren’t sure if their last name is Smith or Smidt, you can enter a partial last name such as “Smi” and still receive relevant search results.

It’s important to remember that inmates are often moved and transferred between facilities, and that the search results may not be updated for several days. Still, a CDCR search will only display adult inmates who are presently incarcerated at one of their sites, so the results will be fairly current. If you would like to double check to find out whether a transfer has occurred, you can call the CDCR at (916) 445-6713.

• The Feds

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has 13 locations including high, low, medium, mixed, and administrative security facilities.

• • Low Security:
    • Dublin Federal Correctional Institution (FCI)
    • Lompoc FCI
    • Taft Correctional Institution (CI)
    • Terminal Island FCI
  • Medium Security:
    • Herlong FCI
    • Lompoc United States Penitentiary (USP)
    • Mendota FCI
    • Victorville Medium I FCI
    • Victorville Medium II FCI
  • High Security:
    • Atwater USP
    • Victorville USP
  • Administrative Security:
    • Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC)
    • San Diego Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC)

As with the state, the BOP has an online database of inmates that are currently being held in its facilities. The inmate locator shows that their records contain information about federal inmates released after 1982. If you are searching for someone’s California inmate record from before 1982, you are advised to contact the National Archives Records Administration (NARA). You will be asked to submit as much of the following information as possible:

• Inmate name
• Date of birth or approximate age at the time of incarceration
• Race
• Approximate dates in prison

Using the BOP search database won’t restrict your search to inmates in California. Their search tool scans all federal prisons across the country. You can search using one of four types of inmate numbers: BOP register number, D.C. Department of Corrections (DCDC) number, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Number, or Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) number. If you don’t know the person’s inmate number, you can look them up by their name, and narrow your results using their age, race, and gender.

If All Else Fails

If searching the California detention facilities directly doesn’t turn up any helpful results, you can do some more digging using court records. Finding out where a case stands can help you determine which jurisdiction is handling a person’s case. The Judicial Council of California search tools include all cases being handled by the state’s Supreme Court, Appellate Courts, Trial Courts, and District Courts.

Within each search option, you have several different ways to look someone up depending on what you know about their case. You can use a case number, the person’s name, their attorney’s or representing law firm’s name, or a case caption such as “Smith v. Jones.” Each option provides a case summary that includes the start date and the dates of any actions taken, attached briefs, and dispositions.

Using Public Records

If at this point you still haven’t nailed down any specific location data about the inmate you are searching for, the information that you do have can be used to submit an information request to the California Department of Justice. This type of Public Records Act request can reveal someone’s criminal record and other data that may be helpful in your California inmate search such as legal names, prior addresses, and employment history.

Searching for someone by the random name they provide, rather than the name on their birth certificate, is a quick way to complicate your search efforts. Birth records as well as marriage and divorce records could help you discover the correct surname.

Address history could give you a better idea of which counties to search in. If an inmate is given a sentence of less than one year, inmates are most likely going to be housed in a county jail rather than a state or federal prison. While California doesn’t have an online database for county-level inmates, knowing where the person is likely to stay or visit can help minimize the list of calls needed.

California Inmate Search With CheckPeople

You can conduct a quick, reliable public arrest records search with CheckPeople. It’s an easy way to uncover the source of the arrest record, and get you closer to locating the California inmate you are searching for. Our search tool instantly scans thousands of public records so that you don’t have to conduct multiple searches and contact dozens of people. Let us make your California inmate search simple.

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