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BACKGROUND SCREENING:
DEFINITIONS

Criminal Record Searches

  • County Criminal Records Search:

Felony and misdemeanor county or parish criminal record searches. Counties and parishes are generally selected based on the consumer's social trace, residence history, and work history locations during the past 7 years.

  • Statewide Criminal Records Search:

Public Information includes: offense, date of the offense, court of conviction, date of conviction, sentence, level of conviction and probation agency or place of confinement. The public information does not include an individual’s arrest history.

  • National Criminal Database Search:

In a search of a proprietary database containing over 149 million records from 88 jurisdiction-sources. Sources include state court repositories, departments of correction, some county courts, and other state level agencies, as well as sex and violent offender records. This search is designed to identify jurisdictions, undisclosed by the applicant, in which they may potentially have a criminal record. If records are found, a county criminal search and/or sex offender registry query will be conducted in the jurisdictions identified.

  • Federal Criminal Records Search:

Federal criminal record searches are conducted by district, based on the consumer’s residence history, work history, and/or school locations during the past 7 years. Cases involved with capital punishments, embezzlement, fraud, and white-collar crimes are usually found here.


Federal Exclusions & Sanctions Searches (Healthcare Sanctions)

  • Federal OIG & GSA Exclusion Combined Search

    This product will search a database of adverse actions against individuals in the healthcare industry.  The search includes the OIG and GSA exclusions list, along with 800 other sources, including federal and state agencies.  The HHS Office of the Inspector General imposes exclusions on health care providers, individuals and businesses.  The OIG search identifies those individuals and entities currently excluded from receiving payment from Medicare, Medicaid and all Federal health care programs.  The General Services Administration Excluded Party List contains information on those parties excluded throughout the U.S. Government from receiving federal contracts or certain subcontracts and from certain types of federal financial and nonfinancial assistance and benefits. 

  • Federal FDA Sanctions Search

    Identifies all clinical investigators who have been disqualified or "totally restricted" by the FDA due to repeated or deliberate failure to comply with applicable regulatory requirements or the clinical investigator has repeatedly or deliberately submitted false information to the sponsor or to the FDA.

Homeland Security Search

Identifies individuals and companies owned or controlled by, or acting for or on behalf of, targeted countries. It also lists individuals, groups, and entities, such as terrorists and narcotics traffickers designated under programs that are not country-specific.

43 national and international terrorist and fugitive lists are searched:

  • National
    • Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) Specially Designated Nationals (SDN)
    • Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC)
    • Defense Trade Controls (DTC) Debarred Parties
    • U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security Denied Persons List
    • U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security Denied Entities List
    • U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security Unverified Entities List
    • FBI Most Wanted Terrorists List
    • FBI Top Ten Most Wanted List
    • FBI Seeking Information                                           
    • FBI Seeking Information on Terrorism
    • FBI Parental Kidnappings                                           
    • FBI Crime Alerts
    • FBI Kidnappings and Missing Persons
    • FBI Televised Sexual Predators
    • FBI Fugitives - Crimes Against Children
    • FBI Fugitives - Cyber Crimes
    • FBI Fugitives - Violent Crimes: Murders
    • FBI Fugitives - Additional Violent Crimes
    • FBI Fugitives - Criminal Enterprise Investigations
    • FBI Fugitives - Domestic Terrorism
    • FBI Fugitives - White Collar Crimes
    • U.S. Marshals Service 15 Most Wanted
    • U.S. Secret Service Most Wanted Fugitives
    • U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations Most Wanted Fugitives
    • U.S. Naval Criminal Investigate Service (NCIS) Most Wanted Fugitives
    • U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Most Wanted Fugitives
    • U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Most Wanted Fugitive Criminal Aliens
    • U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Most Wanted Human Smugglers
    • U.S. Postal Inspection Service Most Wanted
    • Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Most Wanted
  • International
    • Politically Exposed Persons List
    • Foreign Agent Registrations
    • United Nations Consolidated Sanctions List
    • Bank of England Financial Sanctions List
    • World Bank List of Ineligible Firms
    • Interpol Most Wanted List
    • European Union Terrorist List
    • OSFI Canada List of Financial Sanctions
    • Royal Canadian Mounted Police Most Wanted
    • Australia Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade List
    • Russian Federal Fugitives
    • Scotland Yard's Most Wanted
    • World's Most Wanted Fugitives

BANKING ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS SEARCH

This product searches for banking enforcement actions and orders under the following entities:

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
National Credit Union Administration (NCUA)
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS)


Additional Searches

  • Social Security Trace Report:

Social Security Trace Report is an address search that is generated by inputting a Social Security Number and receiving the name and address information for all individuals who match the provided Social Security Number. Since November of 2000, the information comes from non-bank services and databases. The Trace Report serves as a tool to update addresses.

  • Personal References:

The Facet Group inquiries for information including: years known, personal or professional relationship, strengths, weaknesses, and relationship with co-workers.


General Verifications
  • PEER Credit Report (Employment Purposes):

Checking a potential employee’s credit report gives you insight into his or her financial responsibility. To protect the candidate’s privacy, these reports do not contain account numbers, but they do contain information that can help you verify previous employers and addresses.

  • Employment Verifications:

Verification of previous employers disclosed by the consumer may be contacted to verify dates of employment, job title, salary, reason for leaving, eligibility for rehire and a general performance evaluation.

  • Academic Records:

Verification includes: the type of diploma/degree, major/minor, honors and attendance dates. Verification is normally of the highest degree obtained.

  • Professional License:

Confirmation of: license/membership type, license number, date issued, expiration date and current status.

  • Driving Records:

A report of the consumer’s driving record history. Driving reports are accessed directly through the Department of Motor Vehicles ensuring the license status; class, moving violations and restrictions are as up to date as possible

  • FACIS

(Fraud and Abuse Control Information System) is a search of a vast database containing adverse actions of individuals and entities in the healthcare field. This includes information on disciplinary actions ranging from exclusions and debarments to letters of reprimand and probation. FACIS offers three search options ranging from the minimum federal requirements to a search inclusive of more than 800 sources in 50 states. To determine which level is the best option, see the descriptions listed below.

Level 1 – OIG/GSA and other federal sources. This search meets the government’s minimum requirements as outlined in the OIG’s Compliance Program Guidance.

Level 2 – OIG/GSA and other federal sources plus a search of the sources from an individual state of your choice. This search meets the minimum federal requirements and provides limited state-licensure protection.

Level 3 – OIG/GSA and other federal sources, plus all 50 states (800+ sources). This search exceeds minimum Federal requirements and offers business risk management for existing employees/vendors/contractors.


Healthcare Reports
  • (OIG) Sanction Report:

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) maintains the list of excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE), a database providing information to the public, health care providers, patients and others relating to parties excluded from participation in the Medicare, Medicaid and all Federal health care programs.

  • (GSA) Excluded Parties List Report:

EPLS is the electronic version of the Lists of Parties Excluded from Federal Procurement and Non-procurement Programs (Lists), which identifies those parties excluded throughout the U.S. Government (unless otherwise noted) from receiving Federal contracts or certain subcontracts and from certain types of Federal financial and non-financial assistance and benefits. GSA is required by the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to compile and maintain a list of parties debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment, or declared ineligible by agencies or by the General Accounting Office.

 
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