Is there anywhere I can go on line and find someones criminal record for free?
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No, it's not public info.  You would have to go to government officials to probably find that
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If you know what state and county the person may have committed them in you can call the court clerk there. It is public record.\nOr you can pay to have a check done.
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Go to your county Government page, there should be a link for public records
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There are public records available from the courts, and sherriffs office and jails where the records are held. These days a lot of that info is on the web, it is just that you have to find the website of the court, find the website for the sherrifs ofice and so on. The people who charge for background checks are charging because this is what they do. They go through all sorts of different databases and complie the info. Its work. So if you want free do the leg work yourself. Start by listing all the towns this person is know to have lived in. Then find the names of the courts in that jurisdiction, and the names of the police dept or sherrif ofice, and try to find their website. Most have websites these days, but if not call them on  the phone and ask for the procedure for viewing public records.
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That would depend upon the reason you need to find out. If it is in order to hire a person (especially for jobs which involve sensitive information or contact with certain groups, such as children) then your local police department will be able to run a background check on the person.\nIf it is someone in prison, and you have a legitimate reason to find out the reason the person has been incarcerated, the correctional facility itself will be able to give you that.\nIf you are just wondering/nosey you may be able to find out by getting a background check through a private firm such as: \nhttp://www.internet-detective.be/\nor\nhttp://www.crimcheck.com/\n\nThere any privacy laws that protect the individual's personal information, which can make it difficult to find out such info.
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there arent any free sites.. your best bet would be to pay the fee and locate that person if not hire a detective
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I don't know what state you live in, but in NC there is a website that allows you to check anyone's NC criminal record for a fee.
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Just call the local police station and say you want a criminal records check done on someone. It's puplic knowledge if they have.
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Maybe call the magistrates office and give them all the info you have, they'll check their records.
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Go to your local court house.  They will have a place where you can look up on a computer or micro fische the records of individuals.  I did on my brother in law and found out somethings that wasn't to nice.
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There are many sites that say they will give you peoples records but all they do is give you the info on where to go to get them. SOme for a fee will go to the court house and look them up for you. You can do this yourself at your local court house or where the person you want to find out about was arrested or not. I have tried just about all of them that I could find. It was easier to go downtown and pull the files myself. You can do that you know.
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Break into the records building...\n\nActually there are ways to do background checks on people, businesses hiring do this all the time.  A little searching will probably turn up something, but don't expect it to be free.
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You can call the police department that arrested the individual and see if they can direct you to the correct jail.  See if they have the number or website of that specific jail.  If they give you the website you can probably do a search of the individual on-line.
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Try to find the website for you state court system or county court system. Many will have a freebie area to check on people's criminal and civil records. However, a credit report (bill paying tendencies) will never be free.
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There is numerous background check sites online. Try some of these. Good Luck!\n\nwww.backgroundcheckgateway.com\n\nwww.background-checks-systems.com/\n\nwww.criminalrecords.ws/\n\nwww.publicrecordfinder.com/ \n\nwww.crimcheck.com/freerecords.htm \n\nwww.interqst.com/ \n\nwww.inet-investigation.com/\n\nwww.discreetresearch.com/
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WWW.crimetime.com     has a section for  free  public records searches  by state. also has  other  very interesting   free portions. its  kinda scary how much you  can find out  about  a person  on here/
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that's not possible. if you want criminal history you definietly have to pay money.\nhttp://www.peoplesearch.com