Special notice
The Attorney General’s Office recently upgraded the state system that supports background checks to bring it into compliance with FBI standards. The office recommends that you contact a Webcheck location before visiting to ensure its equipment is up-to-date.
The Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation regularly processes about 1.5 million background checks annually. Through WebCheck, agencies transmit fingerprints and other data electronically to BCI, to be compared against a database of criminal fingerprints to determine if an individual has a criminal record. BCI then issues a background report that helps schools, hospitals, daycare centers, and other employers make critical hiring decisions quickly and with confidence.