Background Checks

Seven of the best sites for doing background checks on potential employees, tenants or other individuals. Know of another site that should be listed here? Leave your suggestion at the bottom of this page.

1. Background Network - Provides criminal background checks on a local or national level, including sex offender searches, homeland security searches, alias searches. Also offers pre-employment screening, people searches, and more. (www.crimcheck.com)

2. EmployeescreenIQ - Offers criminal background checks, pre-employment screening, international background checks, I-9 employment eligibility verifications, work history verification, substance abuse screening, more. (www.employeescreen.com)

3. Private Eyes - Employment investigators offer services including education and degree verification, criminal record searches, driving record searches, past employment verification, drug testing, sex offender searches, more. (www.privateeyesinc.com)

4. CriminalWatchDog.com - Provides criminal background checks including felony, misdemeanor, sex offender, terrorist database and other criminal offense records. Also provides eviction records for landlords doing background checks on tenants. Search at county, state, regional or national levels. (www.criminalwatchdog.com)

5. Intelius - Online background checks including investigation of criminal records, identity verification, employment screening, tenant screening, driving history checks and more. (www.intelius.com)

6. MicroBilt - Background checks including criminal record checks, credit reports, ID verifications, motor vehicle & driver’s license verifications, more. (www.microbilt.com)

7. Background Checks Systems - Criminal background checks, identity verification, employment screening on local and national level. (www.background-checks-systems.com)