Pre-Employment Screening
| Pre-Casting Screening | Tenant Screening
Investigative /
Legal Backgrounds | Private
/ Domestic Backgrounds
Pre-Employment Screening
Negligent hiring is costing
American companies millions of dollars, as
well as harming a company's profits, property
or business reputation. We conduct background
investigations because we believe today's
hiring choices can be a critical predictor
of tomorrow's business success or failure.
Our background investigations provide employers
the information they need to make the best
possible hiring choices. Information research
services are also available for employers
who conduct employment investigations in-house.
We design programs to meet the specific risks
and requirements of individual employers
and will work with you to correlate the level
of background research to the level of authority
and responsibility required for the job.
This will allow you to control costs while
maintaining sufficient screening standards.
Here is an overview of some of the searches
we conduct:
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Pre-Casting Screening
Each season, production companies lose millions of dollars due to ill-informed casting decisions and the resultant highly-publicized scandals. At the least, this produces a hectic PR scramble, but more serious fallout usually follows, including the dismissal of the contestants and the rush to find replacements. The employment of key staff may even be severed to make amends for a third party’s error. All of these crises could be prevented with the comprehensive and thorough background checks that we provide. Collective Intelligence is the premiere agency for entertainment background checks, overseen by a founder with a decade of Industry experience. Save the drama for the show. We are well-informed of what you need to know in order to make the most successful talent choices, and you will never end up on The Smoking Gun.
At Collective, we design programs to meet your specific risks and requirements. We will work with you to correlate the level of background research to the level of clearance required for each show. This will allow you to control costs and diminish embarrassing publicity while maintaining sufficient screening standards.
Here is an overview of some of the searches we conduct:
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Tenant Screening
Whether you’re a homeowner, landlord or management
company, we know how important it is to you to discern the nature
and credit-worthiness of potential tenant(s). We design packages
to specifically meet your needs. Searches available are as follows:
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Investigative / Legal Backgrounds
We conduct backgrounds for business/investment relations,
corporate investigations and litigation purposes.
A variety of searches and services are available and are individual
to each case.
They
may include but are not limited to:
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Private / Domestic Backgrounds
We provide background investigations for private individuals for the purposes
of pre-marital screening, child custody/endangerment, threat management (stalking),
domestic employee screening, litigation and judgment recovery. Information provided
in these backgrounds are limited to public records and other legal sources only
and do not include information restricted by local, state and federal authorities.
Records available are:
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Background Search Descriptions:
Civil searches can include such information
as workplace harassments, negligence, breach of contract, evictions,
restraining orders, personal injury lawsuits, divorces, etc.,
and combined with criminal searches, are a valuable way to
ascertain the character of an individual. Results include case
number, filing date, type and location of case, all plaintiffs
and defendants and judgments (if any) or pending court dates.
Credit histories can help determine the truthfulness of an
applicant, as well as provide information on bankruptcies,
liens and judgments against them. Someone that mismanages his
or her personal finances could possibly mismanage your company's
finances, time and resources.
We can conduct searches at the county and
state level to uncover fictitious business names, corporations
and identities as well as individuals affiliated with these companies.
Once we have established the counties that
a Subject has resided in, we can then conduct
a seven-year criminal history search using their name, date
of birth and
social security number. We search for all
felonies and misdemeanors in each county of residence. Results
include case number, violation
date, filing date, charges, plea and disposition.
This search also produces any active warrants that an applicant
may have.
We suggest that criminal searches be done
in all names that are discovered for an applicant. Mary Jones-Smith
may not have
a record under Mary Smith, but under her
maiden name possess one or more criminal convictions.
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Driver's histories can provide several useful pieces of information.
It first can provide a description of the person, in the case
of someone using improper identification. It can also provide
information on criminal matters outside of the applicant's
county of residence(s) such as DUI's. It will also provide
information on failures to appear, which reflects on an applicant's
attentiveness to personal business.
Verification of education/license information is important
to some employers who require a specific level of education/degree
or license. Some employers also use this as a tool to assess
the honesty/dishonesty of an applicant.
Approximately one-third of all applicants falsify
information on their employment applications. Our specialists
will verify dates of employment, position, salary, duties performed
and eligibility for rehire and return results to you generally
within 24 hours.
Federal civil searches contain records of alleged
violations federal statutory or constitutional rights. These
cases are initiated by individuals, businesses or governmental
entities seeking monetary damages, requesting injunctions to
stop allegedly illegal activity or pursuing some other remedy
provided by law.
Federal courts have jurisdiction over federal
offenses and offenses that cover more than one state, such
as drug smuggling, customs violations, interstate firearms
violations, etc. It is conceivable that a person that is not
a career criminal could have no record in a state court, but
have a record in a U.S. District Court. This should be considered
when ordering criminal checks.
This search can produce records of defaults,
tax liens and judgments at the county, state and federal level.
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Marriage and divorce searches are done at
the county level and can include names of spouses, dates
of marriage/divorce, as well as any custody/child support
disputes. This information may be restricted in certain states/counties.
The Nationwide Criminal Database Search is
a comprehensive database search that provides criminal information
from 40 states and 32 state sex-offender registry. This search
may provide criminal records for counties other than are
produced from a Social Security Trace. same day access to
the largest criminal database available with millions of
offense records. It is a valuable information resource that
may discover convictions in counties not identified in a
Social Security Trace or Credit History Report if the subject
never lived in the county. Records from states are indexed
from state correctional institutions, sexual offender and
violent offender lists, the Office of Foreign Asset Control
(OFAC) and some state and county court records.
The jurisdictions
included in this search are as follows:
- Alaska Courts
- Arkansas Courts
- Arizona Courts
- Arizona Corrections
- California Court Index
- Connecticut Courts
- Connecticut Corrections
- Connecticut Traffic Court
- District of Columbia Corrections
- Florida Courts
- Florida Broward County
- Florida Corrections
- Florida Palm Beach County
- Florida Pinellas County
- Florida Suwannee County
- Foreign Nationals
- Georgia Corrections
- Iowa Corrections
- Idaho Corrections
- Illinois Corrections
- Indiana Corrections
- Kansas Corrections
- Kentucky Corrections
- Maine Corrections
- Michigan Corrections
- Minnesota Courts
- Minnesota Corrections
- Missouri Corrections
- Mississippi Corrections
- Montana Corrections
- North Carolina Corrections
- Nebraska Corrections
- New Jersey Courts
- New Jersey Archived Corrections
- New Jersey Corrections
- Nevada Corrections
- New York Corrections
- Ohio Corrections
- Oklahoma Corrections
- Oregon Corrections
- Rhode Island Courts
- South Carolina Corrections
- Sex Offenders Multi-State:
AK-AL-AZ-DC-DE-FL-GA-IA-IL-IN-KS-LA-MD-MI-MN-MS-ND-NE-NM-NY-OK-SC-TN-TX-UT-VA-WA-WV-WY
- Tennessee Courts
- Tennessee Corrections
- Tennessee Supplemental Courts
- Texas Courts
- Utah Courts
- Utah Corrections
- Virginia Courts
- Virginia Fairfax County Circuit Court
- Virginia Traffic
- Washington CLJ Courts
- Washington Corrections
- Washington SUP Courts
- Wisconsin Courts
- WisconsinCorrections
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This information contains information from
the United Nations suspected and known terrorists list, Office
of Foreign Asset Control, Bank of England Sanctions, OSFI
Canada, Defense Trade Controls and Office of Foreign Asset
Control. The list contains names of foreign nationals (individuals
and entities) that the U.S. government currently has sanctions
against; whose property may be blocked; who is restricted
from exporting by the U.S. Department of Commerce; and whom
no U.S. person may have dealings with. Individuals on the
list include known terrorists and international narcotics
traffickers.
As investigators, we are accustomed to obtaining
in-depth information for our clients. Our reference verifications
interviews are thorough and can provide insight into an applicant’s
work ethic, behavior, compatibility with co-workers/management
and other information to ensure that you’re hiring the
best and most qualified person for your company.
This is the first step in identifying false information provided
on a job application. From these searches we verify that the
social security number was actually assigned to the Subject,
the state of issuance, as well as other names the Subject has
used and a complete address history.
Per Megan’s Law, sexual offenders must register when
they move. There are currently more than 386,000 registered
sex offenders nationwide. Sexual offender registry searches
are statewide searches of registered sex offender databases.
This search is recommended when applicants are working with
children or other people at risk. A signed release is required
for certain states.
Our investigators are specially trained to
obtain all types of witness and case party statements, and
provide courtroom quality statements that can stand up as
evidence whenever challenged by opposing council. We obtain
written, telephonic and tape-recorded statements, with full
transcription services available upon request. We are also
adept at obtaining confessional statements in criminal and
theft investigations.
By searching for a Subject's worker's compensation filings,
we can reveal the litigious nature of an individual. No one
wants to be injured on the job, and unfortunate situations
can occur in any field. However, people that repeatedly file
claims against former employers are a liability to any company.
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