Personnel checks are required in modern business activity. Such testing can reduce the risk of becoming victims of criminal fraud and simply irresponsible employees.

A person convicted by the court to the serving of a sentence, since the entry into force of a conviction is judged as in the sentence, and after his release from serving a period of time prescribed by law.

Conviction is a legal status of a person who established the fact of his conviction for the offense to any punishment, and is associated with the onset of the person for certain legal consequences. This refers first of all penal consequences:

• first of all a person has a criminal record that is considered as aggravating circumstance;
• sometimes conviction is a qualifying circumstance, i.e., fact that allows to attribute the crime to a particular article of the Special Section of the Criminal Code;
• conviction is a necessary basis for recognizing faces a dangerous recidivist;
• criminal records are relevant to determine the type of labor camp, where a person was serving the sentence of imprisonment before.

Criminal record may have other non-criminal legal consequences prescribed by law. Thus, the presence of previous convictions for acquisitive crime may be grounds for rejecting the work associated with servicing of property, etc.

It would be unfair and inappropriate to always remind them of the perfect person in the past offense, if it is healed, making a conviction in a lifetime kind of stigma. Therefore, persons who have completed their sentences are judged as long as the criminal record will not be canceled or withdrawn in accordance with the law.

Cancellation of conviction is the expiry of the statutory period from the date of completion of primary and secondary face punishment, after which the person is convicted.

For expunging criminal records is necessary to face during this period has not committed new crimes, otherwise, the term was suspended and the person is convicted of both crimes until maturity of a conviction for the most serious of them.

Removal of a conviction by up to maturity in a criminal record if convicted proved his impeccable behavior correction.
In addition, a conviction can be taken off an act of amnesty and pardon.

U.S. employers are now able to assess the reliability of the candidate for the office without having to send a written request to the police. Information about criminal convictions, citing police and other problems with the law, is now available online. Access to judicial archives is available to all comers at the price – $ 20 per certificate.

In the case of detection of the corresponding entry in the archive, the system will prepare a standard response that contains the date of the verdict, the charges imposed by the court verdict and the judicial district in which the case was heard. Information about the victim or the circumstances of the crime can not be disclosed. Representatives of public and charitable organizations can use the service for free.