Stop Expunged Or Sealed Records From Appearing On Background Checks - YouTube

If you just had your record expunged or sealed and are out looking for a job,

your criminal record may still show up on a background check unless you do something very important.

This video will tell you what that is and answer several other important questions

about how to get the most out of your expungement or record sealing.

Here is something most people don't know about expungement and record sealing...

Having your record expunged or sealed at the courthouse

is often only the first step to clearing your record and putting the past behind you.

That is because, in general, courts do not notify

commercial background check companies each time a criminal record is sealed or expunged,

and commercial background check companies are where most employers go

to obtain background checks information.

This means that commercial background check companies,

who often acquire criminal records once a year,

won't know about your expungement or sealing until they do their annual update.

This means that your expunged or sealed record

may show up on commercial background checks for up to a year or more.

This is a big problem.

Our law firm get calls and emails from people

all over the country asking why their expunged record is till showing on a background check.

The Wall Street Journal even wrote a story about it.

The good news is that there are steps that you can take to help solve this problem.

Before we talk about the solutions,

it is important to know a little more about the very complicated world background checks.

We categorize background checks into three categories.

The first category of background checks are government sources,

such as courts or state repositories and the FBI.

Most employers do not directly access government sources when they do background checks.

However, most licensing and regulatory authorities and government employers will use government sources.

The good news is that these sources

are automatically updated at various time intervals when a record is sealed or expunged.

The second source of background checks are regulated background check providers.

Most employers use regulated background check providers.

They're called regulated because they are regulated by federal and sometimes, state laws.

These are the providers that are the most important

to update after your record is expunged or sealed by the court.

We will talk more about this in a minute.

The third category of background checks are unregulated background check providers.

These are low cost providers of background checks that are all over the internet.

They are called unregulated because they do not claim to be governed by federal or state law.

They tell people not to rely on the reports for employment or housing decisions;

a request that many landlords and employers ignore.

Okay, so there are the three categories:

government, regulated commercial background checks, and unregulated.

Since the government sources will automatically be updated,

let's focus our efforts on the other two categories

and how to get the most out of your expungement or record sealing.

Let's start with the regulated background check companies,

for most people, this is the most important category.

An estimated 90% of private sector employers who will do background checks will fall into the is category.

Most of the regulated background check companies

obtain criminal records once a year from the courts or government agencies.

This saves them the cost of checking every court

and every agency every time an employer or landlord wants to do a background check on someone.

Otherwise, background checks would cost tens of thousands of dollars each.

This system of purchasing criminal records on a yearly basis makes background checks

affordable and helps everyone,

except people who recently had their record sealed or expunged.

Here is why:

Let's say the background check company purchases data from the court in July,

and you had your record expunged or sealed a few weeks later in August.

The background check company will not know

that your record is expunged or sealed until they do their update the next July.

This means that the background check company will continue to provide information

about your criminal record on the background checks that they provide for nearly a year.

This unfortunate situations happens all the time.

So, how do you prevent your expunged or sealed record from appearing on the private sector databases?

Well, unless you want to wait up to a year for them to do their updates,

you will have to update them yourself.

This means that you will have to gather the contact information for these companies

and send them a copy of your official court documents that shows that your record was sealed or expunged.

Or, the smarter and faster way is to use our Expedited Criminal Record Service.

We call it ERCU for short.

Our exclusive ERCU service will get your expunged or sealed record removed

from more than 600 leading private background check companies in 14 days or less.

This service is a great investment if you recently had your record expunged or sealed

and you are looking for a job in the private sector.

Okay, let's talk about the third category, unregulated background check companies.

The third place you want to clear your record is with the dozens of people search websites,

like BeenVerified.com, that make criminal records available to the public,

often for free, so your friends, neighbors, and coworkers can easily see your criminal record.

Even some landlords and employers use these sites.

Worst of all, these sites typically do not remove expunged or sealed records

unless you ask them to remove information about you.

Our Background Check Removal Service, we call BCR,

will remove your information from 30 leading unregulated sites in just 45 days.

Best of all, we can have your record removed from these sites

even if you have not had your record sealed or expunged.

This inexpensive service is a must if you want to greatly reduce the chances

that anyone in the general public will see your criminal record.

So in review,

Government sources will be automatically updated after your record is expunged.

Regulated background check companies,

the ones used by most employers, can take up to a year to update their records,

so you need to use our Expedited Criminal Record Update service.

You can get your information removed from 30 leading unregulated background check sites today,

even if your record hasn't been sealed or expunged by using our Background Check Removal Service.

For more information, pricing, or to order these services,

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