Federal District Court Criminal History

This search is of federal district court repositories for criminal conviction information. Criminal felony and misdemeanor cases involving federal law are filed with the U.S. District Courts.

Examples of federal criminal cases may include bank robbery, embezzlement and tax evasion. Response may include defendant, case number, file date, charges and disposition or current status.

This is an important search to conduct. The reason this search is so important is because the federal government and each state government has its own sovereignty. Therefore, they each have their own criminal record repository. You could check a person's state and/or county criminal history and not find any record of a federal crime, when in fact a person has been convicted and potentially served time in federal prison. You should be cautious of any background investigation company that offers to provide criminal history information to you, but does not mention the need to conduct a federal district criminal history

In accordance with the Consumer Reporting Employment Clarification Act of 1998 we will not be able to provide certain information to our clients to be in compliance with 605(a)(5). The following is a summary of services that have been restricted from dissemination:

• (A) Civil suits, civil judgments, records of arrest, paid tax liens, bad debts and any other adverse item of information, except criminal convictions may only be reported for seven (7) years, ten (10) years for bankruptcy.
• (B) "Records of convictions of crimes" are exempted from the seven (7) year rule. Consumer reports on individuals expected to earn more than $75,000.00 per year continue to be exempt from all the time limitations.

PSI will continue to report all information found on records for 7 years. However, we will only report felonies and misdemeanors older than 7 years in states allowing the dissemination of such information to remain in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act.