Sunday 16 November 2014

Online Free Texas Arrest Records

By Claire Dowell


Every applicant for positions and rights for employment, immigration, identification, security clearance, professional licenses and adoption has to undergo series of rigorous scrutiny before acquiring them. This is done to ensure that any future liabilities will be alleviated or avoided. It is the responsibility of any approving institution to obtain background checks for such applicants by utilizing appropriate documents such as public arrest records.

Criminal or arrest records are the best articles for background checks because it is a comprehensive compilation of a person's past encounters with Law Enforcement in a certain jurisdiction. All details about concurrent arrests, convictions, sentences and dispositions, including civil offenses of that particular individual are the usual contents of a criminal record.

In the State of Texas, the Department of Public Safety (DPS), Crime Records Service (CRS), Bureau of Access and Dissemination is responsible for archiving and maintaining such documents and accepting and responding to every request made for a copy of criminal history records information of a particular person. In compliance with the Texas Government Code, Section 522.023, any individual or their appointed representative can have access to and obtain their own criminal history records information. Moreover, deferred adjudication and conviction records can be made available to the public.

The Department of Public Safety has provided several options in the procurement of Texas criminal records. The first approach is to perform a name-based search. This is done by first creating an account in the Crime Records Service Public Site, found in the website of the Department of Public Records. Simply enter the relevant arrest information in the fields provided, be it your own or of another person's. For every name or record searched, the said department will charge $3.00 on your credit card.

The second approach uses fingerprints to yield more precise results. To do this, you must first set an appointment online in the website of the company directly tapped by the Department of Public Safety to take requesting parties' fingerprints. Then file a request declaring your intentions towards obtaining a copy of your own arrest record. Have your fingerprints taken electronically; pay the obligatory $15.00 processing fee imposed by the said department, plus $9.95 for the fingerprinting services and send these requisites to the Department of Public Safety. Alternatively, you can obtain a fingerprint card duly approved by the abovementioned department and use it to inscribe a full set of fingerprints. You will only pay the required processing fee for this scheme. Requests are normally processed within ten business days, but are still solely dependent upon the volume of requests the department is accepting.

An important value implanted in our nature as humans is to persistently seek out ways and means to improve life. A good portion of this need has been satiated in the 21st century by current advancements in technology, spearheaded by the Internet. Such needs have been partially subdued because the Internet has continuously provided man with information and almost all services. This has inspired government repositories, like the ones discussed above, and several private entities to put up online databases for public records. The goal for such actions is to allow requesting parties to obtain the records that they are seeking at the shortest amount of time possible, just after entering a few bits of information. In recent years, such endeavors have become the most popular search activity done over the Internet.




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