Inmate Jail Records in Other Counties
Other Records in Iowa County
Jail Records – How to Check Out Someone’s Jail Records Online
If you have been arrested for a DUI offense, you may have to look at jail records in Iowa. Although not all states require you to disclose your arrest record to a prospective employer, more employers are requiring criminal history information as well as work application documents to include a check on your criminal history. Unfortunately, the state of Utah is the only state that does not currently require that an applicant disclose his or her arrest history. According to a report from the Associated Press, “some employers say they are taking the request for the past arrest history in stride, while others have said they would fire any employee with a DUI arrest.”
Jail records are considered public records under the state’s public records act. Therefore, anyone who looks up such records will have access to the information. However, there are certain limitations on the information that can be obtained. Jail records in particular are not normally made available over the Internet because of privacy concerns. There is one exception to this general rule, however – if you are an employer who is looking to hire someone and has access to the person’s personal records, you can obtain access to the public records.
If you are going to use the Internet to do this particular search, you will have to make a small investment. Private companies that offer such background check services charge an administrative fee for each record you access. The fee also includes the cost of acquiring the individual’s arrest record in your state of residence. Jail records are not considered public records by all states. Depending on which state the arrest took place, the records may have to be sent via mail, certified or hand-delivered, or personally visited by the company.
You can expect to pay several dollars for the records, depending on how much information you need. Sometimes, the charges are not very expensive at all. For example, if you want two different sets of jail records, you would usually have to pay for the first set, then wait a few weeks to get the second. In some instances, you can expect to pay more money. If the person you are checking out has been convicted of domestic violence in any of the past four years, you can expect to pay over ten dollars per record request. However, in order to gain access to such records, you have to make payment through credit card.
In many cases, public jail records are only available in the county where the crime took place. This means that if the suspect was convicted of rape in one county, he could have his conviction records in another. It is important to find out if the person you are checking out has any criminal convictions in other states as well. There are services online that allow you to check out national inmate data and national sex offender databases. However, these services do cost money.
A few states allow anyone to access their public jail records. These include Florida, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Most people who are checking jail records online are looking to obtain a copy of a jail record from a website that is publicly accessible.
