The world has become digital and is slowly becoming more and more comprehensive
. It's no longer enough to just trust that people are honest or have your best interests at heart- in business or personally. The world is also becoming more insecure with each passing moment and it pays to do your due diligence on potential business partners, clients, even personal dates, friends of your children (or yourself) and more.
Luckily you can do a public records search to find out a great deal of information on just about anyone and any activity. If someone is arrested and/or convicted of a crime this leaves a footprint you can find in a public records search. You can also find a great deal of information beyond just criminal searches that can tell you if someone is what they appear to be or whom they are claiming to be.
So how do you perform a public records search? Their are a few ways. The first is the most tedious and comes at a great expense. Manually sifting through public records by going to your towns hall of justice. The problem with this is there are literally millions of records in every state. You also can't find things from other states in a local search so this type of search is incomplete.
With the internet being world wide and many companies starting to digitize and create databases of the various public records documents everywhere into one larger database that is more complete- you can now, for a very reasonable fee, in the comfort of your home perform a complete public records search simply by logging into a site and using a single search box and filters to segregate your searches.
You'd do a broad search then use filters to categorize your results. Many of these services make this process very intuitive and lucrative by offering everything in one easy and convenient page (or pages if there are a lot of records for an individual).
You pay either a monthly or yearly fee to save yourself a great deal of work and the information is updated frequently so your always on top of the latest records. This is a far more lucrative search than manually trying to search the so called free records everywhere- which is impossible to get a complete search without a great deal of expense (traveling expenses etc...). The fee you pay is not for the records themselves but for the convenience it affords you.