Steve Brownstein, Dennis Brownstein, and Donald Schneider Make Presence In NAPBS - Nashville

Steven Brownstein, Dennis Brownstein, and Donald Schneider, a super-powerhouse of criminal record check, background screening, and sales dynamics will be in Nashville April 15th-17th at the annual NAPBS Conference.

Steven Brownstein, whose conference in 2003 and whose efforts there formed the NAPBS, has been absent for several years from the annual conference. This year is different.

"It is sort of like a home-coming for me, quips Steven Brownstein.  The NAPBS,  it has been several years since my international travels have coincided with the NAPBS annual conference. This year that I am in the USA. I wouldn't miss this conference for anything."

His brother, Dennis Brownstein, couldn't agree more, " I usually attend the NAPBS conferences wiith my sales and marketing staff. It is such a pleasure to have my brother, Steve, here. He brings to the conference a dynamic that no one else in the industry quite does."

Donald Schneider, Straightline International's newly appointed Director of USA Sales, admits to being rather awed by the immensity of the NAPBS Conference and that it is such a successful garthering of industry titans. Yet, having known Steven Brownstein, he admits that it comes as no surprise the industry had through his effort evolved into this great entity.

Schneider adds, "As a relatively new-comer to the pre-employment screening industry, I see that there are many committed members to NAPBS. I hope to be one of those committed.  It is with a matter of pride that I announce that Straightline International and our sister newspaper, The Background Investigator, will host the NAPBS Newcomer Reception."

About hosting the NAPBS Newcomer Reception, that's Brownstein through and through. Always giving a hand to the underdog. Always helping the industry and its participants to excel and succeed.

And he gives without any strings attached. That it is indeed a quality he has, a quality rarely found these days.

USA Criminal Record Search Hits All Time Low Pricing

The USA county criminal record searched reached a new low in pricing as Crimefx announced a country wide reduction to $1.75 per county searched.

The search is performed according to NAPBS provider guidelines.

That will ensure the quality of your result while the unheard of before price of $1.75 assures your bottom line increases almost exponentially.

The $1.75 cost per background check does not include any court levied fees or charges for the name search.

What is does include is the exact same type search performed by most criminal record retrievers and background screening companies.

Pre-employment screening companies and end-users will be thrilled to know that Steven Brownstein has already successfully completed the NAPBS Provider Exam, which in their words, "Those
who successfully complete the exam show due diligence and industry knowledge that
should be beneficial to their clients and the end-user."

Steven Brownstein believes criminal record searches should be priced fairly for the product they deliver.

According to Brownstein, "There should be no doubt that clear records take little time and effort to obtain; there is no real reason in the world to over price them. The real work is in the records found doing the searches. They average from 5%-15% of the total amount of records checked. Now that's what we should be paid for."

Crimefx takes into consideration the time and effort it takes to process the criminal record search. Based on a formula they have found that it can still be quite profitable to keep prices low; but of course, if a company wants to pay more for the same search result they have the perogative.

Just why should you pay more?

Steven Brownstein, President of Straightline International agrees, "Heck, it's no secret how criminal record searches are done in the USA. There are only so many criminal record retrievers in the USA, only so many online court repositories to search,and only so many courts to call or go to."

"These searches, he continues, "are not closely guarded secrets as some companies would want you to believe. Even the procedures companies have in place to test the accuracy of the court criminal record retriever is common knowledge. This is not rocket science."

But even by including rocket science, technology has enabled pricing to steadily fall in the county criminal record check marketplace.

Crimefx has positioned itself in the forefront of this consumer- friendly pricing. There is no need to pay artificial, extraordinarily high prices for the county criminal record product.

Crimefx can be reached through Straightline International offices. Call 1-670-256-7000 to reach a customer service representative that will be more than happy to accept your low offer of $1.75 to perform the same type of search that you already are more likely paying 3 or 4 times as much.

Steven Brownstein can be a little more difficult to reach by phone. He is best reached by E-Mail at steveb@search4crime.com  . He is regularly travelling the globe in search of a better way to access public records.

Steven Brownstein - A Real Criminal Records Researcher

Steven Brownstein is the real McCoy.
There are many want to be's but it takes more than a wish, a desire, an E-Mail ad campaign, or a We Bite to make a real criminal records researcher.
The other week Steven Brownstein reci=ceived an order to find an ' illegal fishing' case on a subject from 10 or so years ago.
The applicant couldn't remember he date(s). Just something like 10  years ago; he was detained, and ended up paying a fine of maybe $500. Or mybe it was bail. He couldn't recall.
Steven Brownstein, knowing the jurisdiction and it processes started at the Federal district Court. There are fish sanctuaries nearby. Maybe he was picked up by the U.S.
But searching the dockets and files for the last dozen or so years proved nothing.
So it was onward to the Superior Court. 
A computerized check of the files showed nothing.
Hmmm, he wondered where this $500 payment went.
Steven Brownstein then went to the Dept. of Public Safety (DPS).  Maybe there was an arrest and no charges brought to court. He might have posted bail. At least that was what Brownstein hoped for. No hanky panky, hopefully.
DPS had no records of the individual being arested nor the subject having been detained or questioned.
One could surmise it wasn't going so well and call it quits.
But not steven Brownstein, a real criminal records researcher.
Wracking his brain, a thought came to him.
Maybe Fish and Wildlife stopped him.
And you know what, that was what had happened.
After a hand search of records (Fish and wildlife has only been compuertised for several years) up popped the name and the illegal fishing 'citatation' and a fine of $500 paid 9 years ago.
Had the researcher been other than Steven Brownstein, you the person needing this information (and document) would have been out cold.
And that's what he means when he says there are many lessor researchers in the business.
They're out to take your money. Fast. With little or no work nor effort on their part.
Brownstein says that if you're willing to part with your cash so easily, shame on you.
Our advice is that if you need a real researcher and Steven Brownstein is the REAL DEAL, contact him at his companies, Straightline International or The Background Investigator at 1-866-909-6678.  Call him directly at 1-670-256-7000.  Rememeber, Brownstein is in Saipan, about 15 hours time zone difference from the USA.

CBS Posts AP Report That Gets It Wrong About Background Checks

CBS got it wrong. That's after AP got it wrong.  Maybe There Ought To Be A Correction.

Regarding an artcle entitled, "AP IMPACT: When your criminal past isn't yours"
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501366_162-57344346/ap-impact-when-your-criminal-past-isnt-yours/

I'm  not sure who the source was, but the comment, "It hasn't helped that dozens of databases are now run by mom-and-pop businesses with limited resources to monitor the accuracy of the records," misses the point as well as BAD MOUTH hard working Americans in the background screening industry. Show me the proof.

LET"S LOOK AT THE ISSUE:

ALL records are kept in databases. The courts have one. The police have one.

What background checking company monitors the records of the original sources of records they acquire?

Why should they? Can't trust the government to keep the record straight?

Fact is,  when it came to criminal records from the courts, everyone, BIG GUYS, and SMALL FRIES bought from the same sources more times than you imagined.

They had a runner (researcher) that searched the databases at a particular court and sent back a report to the company with a clear or found criminal (case) record.

Most counties only had a few (if any) runner/researchers. They were all well known. They were used by almost everyone.

The background check companies regularly check (audit) the researchers. They audit their work by sending work to them (knowing what the criminal case record should be - unless it has been expunged) and comparing it to their known results.

And if a discrepancy is found in a subject's record, to this day, researcher's are asked to do further investigation and find perhaps gather additional identifying information.

But background check companies sending researchers KNOWN CASES of IDENTITY THEFT cases  or asking to IDENTIFY EXPUNGED CASES that aren't expunged from the records and asking researchers to sort that mess out?

NEVER.

Given there are improper USES of DATABASES, the Federal Government has made certain that we know that. It created the FCRA.

About a decade ago,  The National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS) was formed. http://www.napbs.com/

The NAPBS gives MOM and POP's the opportunity to share and get information from the same sources (including the FCRA) as the BIG GUYS.  And there are plenty of MOM and POP enterprises that are PAID members of the NAPBS.

As a sidebar, if it weren't for background checking companies, the issues of court clerical erors and identity theft might never have come up.  Go back more to the late 90's and the identity theft issue started in Ohio with an identity theft, a background checking company, a Sheriff's Association, and a lawsuit.

Meanwhile, the background checking industry always relied on the small MOM and POP to gather the criminal records they needed for their reports.
The internet changed a lot (but not all) of that with online access to court records.  Many small businesses were left without business as the 'big guys' dropped them faster than a hot potato preferring to do their own online searches instead of paying the few dollars per search that was the going rate at the time.

Then came scraping. This is not a new technology.  Research would show that the U.S. Court records (PACER) have been scraped for more than a decade by many companies. The use of scraping as a competitive edge by the BIG COMPANIES anxious to please their customers with faster service has made this product what it is today. Smaller MOM and POP's buy their scraping from the BIG GUYS.

Scraping actually utilizes the live data provided by the source ( in most cases, by a court).

The databases themselves are the problem.  There's errors in most all.

But it's the correction of inaccurate records where the lawsuits lie. The story even mentions a BIG LAWSUIT:

... "(A) settlement, which received tentative approval from a federal judge in Virginia last month, requires HireRight to pay $28.4 million to settle allegations that it didn't properly notify people about background checks and didn't properly respond to complaints about inaccurate files.

HIRERIGHT is by no means a SMALL MOM AND POP company.  Except maybe by comparing them to Microsoft or Wal-Mart.

I have to consider then as false the assessment that the problem discussed in the article is databases run by MOM and POPS.

I take offense at knocking the MOM and POPS of this country.

I read the article as a  'correction of error' problem and not a 'scraping or database' issue. 

Senastionalizing the story did not help protect the innocent person harmed by identity thieves or innacurate records kept at the originating source.

Let's look out for the MOM and POP  businesses. I know of one LARGE  pre-employment screening company that grew out of their garage. Maybe a software company, coffee company, and a newspaper or two had humble beginnings, too.