The fastest way to cast a wide net before you hire. Records pulled from state central repositories covering all counties where your applicant lived, worked, or studied.
A statewide criminal search pulls records from a state’s central repository, which aggregates data from district courts, state police, and bureaus of investigation across the entire state. That means one search can surface records from counties where your applicant lived, worked, or spent time — not just the county on their resume.
We run statewide searches in all states where the repository is reliable. When a state’s repository is known to have gaps, we tell you directly and recommend pairing it with a county search. You will never be left guessing about the quality of what you received.
In Connecticut, our records go back to the late 1980s and early 1990s — far deeper than the 7 to 10 year cap most providers use. If you are screening in Connecticut, that difference matters more than most people realize.
One search covers the entire state repository. Catches records from any county, not just the one listed on the application.
Most competitors cap at 7 to 10 years. Our Connecticut records go far deeper, giving you history that other providers simply do not return.
Every result shows which court it came from. You always know exactly where the information originated, not just that a hit was found.
We flag weak state repositories and recommend adding a county search when a statewide alone is not enough. We do not oversell what a repository can deliver.
Our Connecticut statewide search returns records dating back to the late 1980s. Most background check companies only report 7 to 10 years of history. If you are hiring in Connecticut and using another provider, you may be making decisions based on an incomplete picture without knowing it.
Every statewide criminal search returns the following data points when available in the jurisdiction.
A statewide search is a great starting point when the state repository is strong. But some states do not report everything up to the state level. Municipal courts, justice of the peace courts, and some local courts may not feed their records into the state system. In those cases, a county search fills the gap.
Our recommendation: if you want to be thorough, run both. A statewide catches breadth across the whole state. A county search goes straight to the courthouse and catches depth at the original source. Running both together gives you the most complete picture available.
In these states the repository does not include all pending records or convictions from every court. Adding a county search helps make sure nothing relevant is missed.
Some states restrict how far back we can report. Those rules are triggered by where the applicant currently lives and by where your business is located — if either party is in a restricted state, that state’s rules apply to the search.
We apply these rules automatically — you do not need to track them yourself. For more on why some searches only show seven years, see our guide: Why Some Background Checks Only Show 7 Years. Questions about how state law affects your specific search? Call us at 860-678-0066.
A statewide search covers the state repository. A county search goes straight to the courthouse. Some local courts do not report into the state system at all — running both together closes that gap and gives you the most thorough picture available.
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