Alaska Background Checks
What Background Checks in Alaska does Health Street offer?
Criminal Background Check Packages
Health Street offers various pre-built packages of employment background checks, or you can mix and match individual checks for an entirely customized solution. Our most popular criminal background check packages begin with a Social Security Number Trace and include checks of national criminal databases and/or courthouse record searches.
Why Health Street For Alaska Background Checks?
Health Street combines industry knowledge, a committment to accuracy, and a spirit of fairness when performing background checks in the Last Frontier. Comprehensive employment screenings keep you and your business from stumbling into legal problems. A thorough background screening is essential to confirming that your new hires in Alaska are qualified and honest.
Health Street’s combination of high tech and high touch make background checks in Alaska fast and reliable. We offer simple, secure web technology matched with local court runners to protect your company.
Due diligence is critical. Poorly performed background checks can expose you in the following ways:
In either case, you could be held legally liable. It is critical that you stay in commpliance with local labor laws. Let Health Street’s experts conduct your background checks in Alaska so you’ll know that your candidates have been fully and properly vetted before hire.
Background Check Laws Specific to the State of Alaska
Although it’s separated from the contiguous United States by Canada, Alaska is still governed by the same federal laws and legislation as the other 49 states. This includes all policies related to hiring and the background checks that employers can use to keep their company and its stakeholders safe.
All background checks in Alaska are governed by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), which requires that all employers who are conducting a background check on a current or future employee to get their consent in writing. The FCRA also specifies that information related to criminal activity on the background check may not go back further than 7 years.
In Alaska, the legislation AK Stat § 12.62.160 (2014) further specifies that all criminal justice background check information “may be provided to a person for any purpose, except that information may not be released if the information is nonconviction information or correctional treatment information.” This should be enough information for hiring managers to see whether a crime was committed and if it has any effect on the potential hire’s suitability for the job in question.
No ban-the-box legislation has been passed in Alaska as of 2020, so employers may choose to ask questions about the applicant’s criminal history at any point in the hiring process. As long as they follow the above statute, as well as the FCRA, they can choose to ask questions about criminal history as early as the initial application.
Statistics on Crime in the State of Alaska
Alaska is a sparsely populated state, with the majority of residents clustered in Anchorage, Juneau, and Fairbanks. Despite this fact, there is still a notable amount of crime in the state.
DOT Background Screening Services
If your business hires truck drivers, DOT regulations require that you reach out to prior employers as well as check the FMCSA Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse for violations. You also need to run a Motor Vehicle Report (MVR) to ensure that your drivers have a clean, safe driving record.
Health Street takes this work off of your hands and stores your Alaska background checks securely in the same convenient online portal where you can manage your DOT drug testing and random pool. We contact prior employers, check the Clearinghouse on your behalf, and report it all back to you in a comprehensive background check report, that includes:
Resume Review and Verification Checks
When evaluating a job applicant, the first thing a hiring manager tends to look at is their resume. But what if the schools attended, degrees earned, job titles held, and other credentials were embellished, exaggerated, or outright fabricated? Before making that hire, you can rest easy knowing that Health Street can add resume verification to our Alaska background checks.
Resume fraud is unfortunately all too common in Alaska. Our resume verification services provide a definitive check on everything listed on your applicant’s resume. This includes:
Be sure that the person you want to hire is really who they say they are by ordering resume verification services from Health Street.