BEST BACKGROUND CHECK SERVICES

Comprehensive Background Screening Services You Can Trust

For over 35 years, Reliable Background Screening has delivered trusted, accurate, and compliant background screening services to organizations nationwide and internationally, and it has been voted by HRO Today as a top background screening company. We partner with employers, franchises, private clubs, property managers, healthcare organizations, schools/universities, manufacturing firms, government and nonprofit organizations and associations to help reduce risk, protect your organization, and hire with confidence.

Our comprehensive background screening solutions are designed to support informed decision-making across a wide range of hiring and onboarding needs. Whether you are screening employees, franchisees, residents, tenants, business owners, contractors, volunteers, students, members, or vendors, we customize every screening package to align with your specific role requirements and risk profile.

Flexible Screening Packages Built for Your Needs

We offer:

• Custom background screening packages tailored by position, industry, and compliance requirements
• Bundled background checks for efficiency and cost savings
• À la carte screening services that can be added at any time
• Candidate driven e-form solutions to streamline your hiring process

Our goal is to provide best practices to the right level of background screening, while maintaining speed, accuracy, and full regulatory compliance.

Our Most Common Background Screening Services:

Social Security Number Trace & Death Master Index (DMF)

Our Social Search (SSN Trace) uses advanced data algorithms to validate the candidate’s identity by identifying:

• Current and previous addresses
• Date of issuance and issuing state of SSN
• Potential alias or name variations

This information helps determine jurisdictions for criminal record searches, ensuring criminal checks are conducted in the correct counties and states for maximum accuracy.

In addition, the Death Master Index (DMF) search helps identify whether a Social Security number may be associated with a deceased individual—an important safeguard against identity fraud and misrepresentation.

Criminal Searches

Because criminal records in the United States—and internationally—are not maintained in a single, centralized database, no single search can provide complete coverage. Best-practice background screening requires a layered approach that draws from multiple criminal record sources to help identify potential risks and ensure thorough due diligence.

To deliver comprehensive and compliant results, our criminal background screening services may include searches across the following record sources:

• County, State, and Federal District Criminal Courts
• National Criminal Database (CORE® Criminal Search)
• Sex Offender Registries
• OFAC, SDN, and other Global Government Watch Lists

By combining these searches, we help organizations achieve broader criminal record coverage, improved accuracy, and stronger risk mitigation, tailored to the role and level of responsibility being screened.

Continuous Criminal Monitoring

Unlike a one-time background check that only captures a candidate’s history at a single moment, our Continuous Criminal Monitoring service provides ongoing oversight of criminal records after onboarding. This proactive solution continuously reviews current criminal data and delivers timely alerts if new reportable activity — including misdemeanor and felony convictions — arises during employment or engagement. By maintaining real-time visibility into emerging risks, you can respond quickly to protect your workplace or organization, support compliance needs, and help reduce liability exposure while reinforcing your commitment to safety and responsible decision-making.

Identity Verification, Fraud Defense & Digital Credentials

Our vID, Identity Verification, solution delivers advanced identity assurance to protect your organization from deepfakes, synthetic identity fraud, and other digital threats. Designed for today’s rapidly evolving risk environment, vID verifies that a real person is presenting a genuine government-issued ID in real time, providing confidence in the authenticity of every candidate or user. By integrating cutting-edge digital credentialing and fraud detection, this service strengthens your hiring process, mitigates identity-related risk, and ensures compliance with security and verification standards.

Motor Vehicle Records (MVR)  

Motor Vehicle Record (MVR) checks provide critical insight into driving history and behavioral risk. This search may reveal license status, serious traffic violations, DUI-related offenses, suspensions, and failures to appear, helping organizations assess safety and liability exposure.  Although it is mainly added as a screen for positions requiring driving or access to company vehicles, many organizations still add this to a package without any driving since the data provides “character” information as to behaviors and patterns of a candidate.   For instance, would you hire someone with 3 recent DUI’s or driving on a suspended license with a failure to appear in court?

Employment, Education, License, and Reference Verifications

Employment verification services help confirm the accuracy of a candidate’s work history through primary-source verification conducted by our U.S.-based team. This process validates employers, dates of employment, and positions held, helping identify discrepancies or misrepresentations that commonly appear on resumes.  Verifying employment and education is becoming more and more important with deepfake and AI enhancements, making sure you have the qualified correct candidate.   This is crucial when statistics show 70% of candidates misrepresent themselves on resumes (Forbes, SHRM 2025)

Social Media Screening

Our social media screening reviews publicly available online content to identify job-relevant behaviors that could pose reputational or workplace risk. The screening is designed to flag categories such as threats of violence, hate speech, explicit content, or illegal drug activity, while intentionally excluding protected information in accordance with FCRA, EEOC, and ADA guidelines.

Credit Reports (Franchisee & Financially Sensitive Roles)

Credit reporting services provide valuable insight into a candidate’s financial responsibility and credit behavior, particularly for franchisees and positions involving fiduciary or financial authority. We offer soft-pull credit reports, allowing organizations to assess risk without negatively impacting a candidate’s credit score—ideal for franchise, tenant and ownership screening.

Bankruptcy, Liens & Civil Judgments

Since tax liens and civil judgments no longer appear on standard consumer credit reports, this search has become increasingly important. Our Bankruptcy, Lien, and Judgment searches help uncover financial distress, unresolved obligations, or patterns of risk that may otherwise go undetected, supporting more complete financial due diligence.

Civil & Legal Records

Civil court searches can provide additional context beyond criminal history by identifying lawsuits, legal disputes, or recurring litigation patterns. While not always included in standard screening packages, civil record searches can be valuable for ownership, leadership, or high-risk roles where litigation exposure may be a concern.  Civil searches can be conducted on a county or federal level.

International Background Screening Services

For organizations with international operations or candidates located outside the United States, we offer global background screening solutions covering more than 250 countries and territories. While Reliable Background Screening is a U.S.-based firm and serves clients headquartered in the U.S. or Canada, we support compliant international screening when global searches are required.

Drug Testing Services

Our drug testing solutions help organizations promote a safer, more compliant workplace by screening candidates for substance use through a network of SAMHSA‑certified collection sites nationwide. We offer a variety of customizable panel options—including but not limited to 4‑, 5‑, 9‑ and 10‑panel configurations—using urine, saliva, hair, or other specimen types that align with your company’s risk profile and policy requirements.

Results are delivered quickly, with negative findings often returned in under two business days and any non‑negative results reviewed by a licensed Medical Review Officer to ensure accuracy and regulatory compliance. This streamlined process minimizes administrative burden while reinforcing your commitment to safety, liability reduction, and responsible hiring.

Occupational Health (OccuHealth) Services

Our Occupational Health (OccuHealth) Services help employers ensure workforce health, safety, and regulatory compliance through customized pre‑employment and job‑related clinical evaluations. These services can include physical exams, lab testing, vision and hearing screenings, TB testing, immunity titers, vaccinations, and other tailored health assessments designed to support safety‑critical roles and compliance with industry standards.

Delivered through our nationwide network of certified clinics with streamlined scheduling and fast turnaround times, our OccuHealth solutions help reduce onboarding delays, protect employee wellbeing, and strengthen your organization’s risk management practices.

Electronic I-9 & E-Verify Screening Solutions

Reliable Background Screening’s electronic I-9 and E-Verify platform, powered by our partner I9 Compliance, helps organizations streamline hiring, reduce errors, and stay compliant with federal employment verification requirements. The solution centralizes all I-9 tasks in a secure, easy-to-use dashboard, featuring an error-detecting workflow to guide staff and candidates through proper completion, candidate electronic-driven Section I completion, and automated record management aligned with federal retention rules. With audit-ready reporting and time-stamped documentation, this platform simplifies compliance, is mobile device friendly, minimizes risk, and ensures your organization is always prepared for government verification audits.

With the federal government’s focus on undocumented workers and the enforcement actions that are being actively pursued, ensuring that your organization’s I-9 records are correct historically, as well as in compliance moving forward, has probably never been more important to review.

Candidate-Driven, Mobile-Friendly Workflow

With all of the services mentioned above, Reliable Background Screening can provide your company or organization with our branded, candidate-driven e-form solutions – putting applicants in control of their own workflow, making the onboarding process fast, intuitive, and mobile-friendly. This workflow ensures that required forms—including identity verification, criminal searches and verifications—are completed accurately and efficiently. Each submission can be re-verified against the candidate’s uploaded ID (e.g., Driver’s License), reducing data entry errors and supporting compliance from day one. By streamlining data collection while maintaining thoroughness, our solution accelerates hiring and/or applicant approval, minimizes risk, and delivers a smoother experience for both candidates and hiring teams.

Contact us today to learn how we can design a comprehensive background screening package tailored to your organization’s hiring and applicant verification needs.

As a top background screening company, Reliable Background Screening has, for over 35 years, provided thousands of organizations with accurate, compliant, and reliable screening solutions—let us show you why.