The background check company has earned points for reliability, being founded in 2003, and offering record searches for criminal offenses, location information, and fast searches.

NBC 5 Responds finds background check websites often fail to locate criminal records We ran background checks on seven Chicago men who were convicted of serious crimes. In several cases, the paid ...

The note suggests using ICHAT, the Internet Criminal History Access Tool, which charges a $10 fee. There is hope for a return to free access on the court web site soon.

Some 26,000 names were check during that time. In addition, clerks were removing 12,000 cases from the site. The removals had to be done manually due to the software used by the court, officials said.

Lara Wilson poses for a portrait Friday, Jan. 8, 2021, in front of 2nd District Court in Layton. Wilson is the driving force behind a proposal to allow people to look up criminal records before ...