Are Social Security Numbers used when searching for criminal records?

No. Typically, criminal record information is located by a Name - Date of Birth (D.O.B.) match. Social Security Numbers (SSN’s) are often required for some of our packages to help validate the SSN and to provide a list of known names or addresses to help better identify the applicant; however, criminal records are typically filed by Name and D.O.B. Because of the sensitive nature of SSN’s, jurisdictions don’t want to make SSN’s public record.