Monday, 2 June 2014

Michigan Public Criminal Records

By Ben Kingsley


It is a big challenge for law enforcers to maintain the peace and order, especially since there are law offenders everywhere. To help law enforcers do their job, the criminal documents were made available to the general public. This allows the people to be better informed of the kinds of people they should avoid so they do not run into any kind of trouble with the law. In the state of Michigan, it is the task of their Criminal Justice Information Center to preserve Michigan Criminal Records. Anyone is allowed to submit a request for the documents because they are deemed as public documents.

Crime-related files collected from various counties of a state form a criminal file. On the files you can find the name of the criminal, nature of the crime, and where they occurred. Personal information of the criminal such as the place of residence, age, weight, height, skin color, eye color, and the likes are also included. If you want to request for your own criminal file, you may do so. This way you can check if all the pieces of information included are updated accordingly. You can also obtain the files if it is required in a trial. You can also request for the files of other people but you will get limited information, usually just the basics, so that the privacy of the files' owner is maintained.

When performing background checks on certain people, criminal records are a good source to get some valuable information from. Landlords and employers are known to refer to the records when screening potential tenants and employees. Even parents turn to obtaining criminal records when they want to know the backgrounds of the people that their children are associated with. A person that has a criminal record under his or her name is not immediately a bad person but it is enough to cause some concern.

You can begin a search by giving the name of the person whose documents you want to acquire. You can also utilize fingerprints if you have access. If you are providing the name but it is very common, include more information that you know about the person so that the odds of locating the right documents will get better. As with fingerprints, they are available if the offense has a punishment with a duration of at 92 days or more, if the offender needs to put to jail, or if the offender is fined with $100 or more. Once payments are made, you are not entitled to receive a refund even if the documents you requested for are not located.

You can also retrieve criminal files from the Internet. There are search tools that specialized in maintaining and providing them to the public, some of which render fees for getting the files while some do it without charging anything. There are several search tools to choose from, but unfortunately, not all are capable of supplying accurate pieces of information. To have a better idea about the credibility of the search tool you are considering of using, check if it has a history of providing accurate information or not.

For a certain amount of fee, you can obtain a lot of valuable information from fee-based service providers. But if you look hard enough, you can find service providers that provide Criminal Records Free to Public. You are not going to get the same amount of information you would get with fee-based service providers but you will get the basic pieces of information.




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