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Background Checks For Texas

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30 October 2023

Texas

State Background Check

In addition to other indispensable parts of the background screening process, a state background check gathers all available records of an applicant’s criminal history, even if they’ve lived in several jurisdictions within a state.

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Background Checks

NCS makes hiring easy for our Texas customers! Whether you work in healthcare, construction, retail, food service, hospitality, tourism, outdoor recreation, agriculture, manufacturing or another industry, background checks are a critical part of the hiring process. 

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Accessing Criminal Records

In Texas, it is legal for all private and most public employers to conduct inquiries about an applicant’s criminal history as part of the pre-employment background screening process; this includes reviewing conviction records. As we’ll explore, the state and a handful of municipalities and counties have enacted ban-the-box laws, which must be considered to remain compliant when conducting background screening in certain jurisdictions. NCS makes reading reports easy. Our criminal background checks report convictions and serious pending cases that belong to your applicant.

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Criminal History

Our services have you covered with comprehensive, affordable pre-employment screening services. Choose one of our featured criminal history packages and add on any of the optional individual services.

For our Texas customers, we highly recommend using one of our featured packages for a comprehensive background check and adding on any of our individual services:

  • Essential
  • Enhanced
  • Expanded
  • Motor Vehicle Reports
  • Employment Credit Reports
  • Education Verification
  • Employment Verification
  • And much more

Volunteer and Tenant Screening packages are also available.

We now offer Continuous Monitoring which is used to stay on top of applicant's criminal records after they have been hired. New arrests, pending cases and convictions will be reported. If an employer chooses to review and weigh arrest records in a hiring decision, they must thoughtfully consider EEOC recommendations, as well as anti-discrimination guidelines presented by the FCRA and in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. When a conviction record leads to the disqualification of a candidate for a position, this should be documented at each stage of the review/hiring process and be based on the relevancy of a conviction to the responsibilities of the job itself.

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  • Charge
  • Charge degree (example: misdemeanor or felony)
  • Charge date
  • Filing date
  • Disposition
  • Disposition date
  • County where the offense took place
  • Sentence

National Crime Search reports all convictions within 7 years.

 

 

Drug Screening

With a few easy steps, your employees can schedule their drug screen at a collection site they choose at a time that is convenient for them. DOT testing and random testing are also available.

 

 

Electronic Form I-9 & E-Verify Management

NCS can help you comply with the law with our easy-to-use system that guides and stores new hire Form I-9s online and returns E-Verify results instantly.

 

 

Ban the Box Policies – State, Municipal and County 

The state of Texas does not have a ban-the-box law; however, some counties and municipalities  have adopted laws for employers. These include Austin, San Antonio, Dallas County, Desoto and Travis County. 

Learn More About Ban-the-Box

Since the extent of these county ban-the-box regulations vary on a case-by-case basis, it’s important for public employers to stay aware of the distinctions that apply within their jurisdiction.

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