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Checking Florida Arrest Records Online

By Claire Dowell


Part of the basic procedures implemented by companies and workplaces with regards to ensure that potential risks and hazards are mitigated and averted is to examine a person's background history. Such measures can be satisfactorily and effectively accomplished by obtaining the prospective employee's records of arrest or criminal records.

A person' records of arrest contain every concurrent and past arrests and charges towards a person in a particular jurisdiction, from minor violations to charges for the most heinous felonies. This vast source of information is the reason such documents are utilized for background history checking. Besides regular employment, background checks for candidates for public office positions, volunteer workers, and applicants for professional licenses.

Various approaches are adapted in each state with regards to the updating, maintenance and public access to documents such as criminal records. In the State of Florida, the agency tapped to perform such tasks is the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Division of Criminal Justice Information Services. The said department is a centralized repository for all Florida arrest records.

Florida's central repository offers two methods for arrest records free to public. The first one involves mailing a Criminal History Information Request Form to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Such forms are downloadable from the website of the said department. Requests must be sent with as much details about the person you are pursuing as possible. Examples of this information include the person's complete name, any known aliases, the date of birth or age, race, sex, and if available, the present address and Social Security Number. The accomplished forms must be sent together with a check or money order payable of $24.00 and a return address, as per Department of Law Enforcement policies. Requests are normally processed within five working days.

Another approach towards acquiring a copy of Florida arrest records is to search for them online, using the application found on the website of the said state department. The search is done by entering the same information about a person described earlier. The application will give you multiple matching results, and it is up to you to decide which information belongs to the person you are researching about. Furthermore, there is a possibility the no results will be found in this search. You can immediately print out the results or have it sent to you via e-mail. A fee of $24.00 per record searched will be charged from your credit card. One should be cognizant that certified copies of criminal records, sealed information, expunged records and juvenile criminal history records are not available in this search function.

Request forms will be returned to you in the event that a record is not found. The said form will be marked with the words, "FDLE found NO Florida criminal history based on the information provided. No criminal record check was conducted for other states or for the FBI." Furthermore, you can submit fingerprints of the person in question for positive identification.

Over the years, the Internet has gained much favor as a premiere bearer of goods and services. Because online search for public records has become one of the most popular search activities done via the Internet, approaches such as the ones developed by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and other service providers that offer such, are commonly flocked by requesting parties who want results at the fastest possible time. These modern innovations have saved countless amounts of time, money and exertion, and have helped a lot of end-users accomplish their various intentions.




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