Tuesday, May 24, 2011

What Is Federal Background Check

By Patrick Robinson


Criminal history or rap sheet is another term used for the federal background check. These are FBI's identification records that require the use fingerprints to provide information to the person who's requesting for an investigation.

Most states mandatory asks their people to have FBC or federal background check most especially to those who are working or is about to work with children, old people and the disabled. Governments from most states insist of this procedure in order before you get hired.

FBC is commonly used to provide information about the applicant for security reasons and purposes. The federal background check and investigation's extremeness depends on the kind of job you are applying.

It is important to take federal background check in order to identify all the illegal migrants as well as to prevent terrorist activity. Identification records use fingerprints which are submitted and kept in the FBI. The information is used to identify a person to any past and previous arrests, whether he or she has been employed in the government, legality of naturalization and military services.

The information requested with arrest will be provided by the agency that submitted the fingerprints. Included in the information provided will be the date of arrest, the charges given to the person and if available, even the result of the arrest.

Based on the US's Department of Justice order # 556-73, a person should obtain a copy of his own records and each of the records costs around $18. Once you requested, the fees should be included as well. And the responsible for requests for identification records in the FBI is the criminal justice department.

FBCs are done in order to protect the citizen as well as to prevent any trouble in the future and to help in building trust most especially between employers and employees. In September 11, terrorists attacked US's twin towers that made way to a mandatory and strict rule of the FBI and the government to conduct a strict and mandatory rule regarding the FBCs.

It is important and necessary to conduct personal investigations about someone we are hiring in our company to be able to be safe and protect not only you, your company but also your other employees. It is also important for the government to maintain the state's safety by preventing illegal settlers and migrants in the country. This is also needed to prevent terrorist from attacking the state just like what happened years ago. Federal background check is very important for everybody's safety.




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