Online California Criminal Records

By Claire Dowell


It is the task of the Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General to safeguard California Criminal Records. The documents are made available to the general public because of the Freedom of Information Act. Criminal documents usually reveal a full name of an offender, the crime committed against the law, and the time and place where it was committed. Although the documents are considered a part of the public domain, they are kept from the public if the criminal is proven not guilty as charged.

You are allowed to acquire your own files so that you can check if there is any incorrect detail/s included. If you believe that there are details that are not incorrect, secure the Claim of Alleged Inaccuracy or Incompleteness form and supply it with all the required information and send it back to the Department of Justice together with the requested criminal file

To initiate a search, secure a Live Scan request form from the Department of Justice. Fill out the form appropriately with all the required details and also include your contact information. Then have your fingerprint scanned at the closest live scan site and get your fingerprint card. Submit the request form, fingerprint card, ID issued by the government, and the corresponding payment. There is a different payment for requesting the files and for the fingerprint scan. You can submit a request at the federal level by heading to the state's Federal Bureau of Investigation or at a county level by going to the arresting office where the files are initially filed.

The records of other people can also be requested but there are only a select group of people that are allowed to do so. Law enforcers are allowed to access criminal records of people especially if it is necessary for an ongoing investigation. Employers are allowed so they can make sure that they hire employees that abide by the law. Landlords are given access so they can carefully select who they accept as tenants. And there are special cases where an ordinary citizen can view the basics of other people's records for the purpose of conducting a background check.

If you are looking for another way to acquire criminal files, you can look them up from online search tools that cater to supplying them to the public. You can look for such over the Internet, just be careful with which one you choose because there are fake ones. Initiate a history check on a few that you consider on using so you have a better idea on whether they are capable of supplying genuine information or not. Try to see if past users are contented with their service.

There are websites that ask for a certain amount of fee for the documents while there are some that provide Criminal Records Free To Public. Websites that require fees are capable of providing an extensive amount of information regarding criminal documents. On the other hand, free websites will usually give only the basic facts of a document. It is prohibited by law to use the documents against other people such as in defaming, harassing, embarrassing, or blackmailing. Anyone caught not observing this will be penalized accordingly.




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