Key Benefits of Background Checks for Parents
- Risk Mitigation: Helps parents determine the level of threat posed by individuals who come into contact with their children or enter their home.
- Safety and Security: Ensures that children, the home, and the family’s lives remain secure from various risks, including theft, violence, and sexual offenses.
- Comprehensive Information: Provides access to records involving theft, drug use, child molestation, manslaughter, stalking, violent assault, and more.
- Expanded Reach: Due to the move to online public records, parents can easily gain access to interstate public records, not just local and state records.
Specific Scenarios Where Parents Can Use Background Checks
Childcare/Babysitting Services: Services may “harbor criminals, even sex offenders. “Parents can conduct checks on any sitter or childcare provider with ease using online criminal records websites to ensure the service is safe.
Home Services/Handymen: Crimes in the home are often the result of someone already inside (e.g., cleaning, pool, gardening, or pest services). High risk of in-home thefts. Conducting checks on anyone entering the home reduces the risk of violent crimes and thefts from individuals performing services.
Tutors and Education Help: Sex offenders have been apprehended posing as tutors/instructors to gain unsupervised access to children. Checks ensure that the individual brought into the home for lessons (academic or music) does not pose a risk to the child’s life.
