We've noticed that more and more owners and management agents are not getting New Hampshire criminal history record information from the State of New Hampshire State Police Unit and are utilizing on-line resident screening services like AmRent, CriminalWatchdog, SentryLink, and ScreeningWorks in order to perform combined credit and criminal screening or for standalone criminal records

While these services may seem to include criminal records for New Hampshire they are only able to access very limited information like data on sexual offenders who have committed two or more qualifying sex offenses, or have committed an offense with a victim under the age of 18, current and historical data of individuals with the New Hampshire Department of Corrections and offenders supervised by the Division of Parole & Probation and data for individuals who are currently incarcerated in the New Hampshire Department of Corrections.  The reports may also pick up on public records, like court records, if someone has ever searched the public court records for the applicant before.

 

New Hampshire criminal history records are not public information and are confidential and only released with the knowledge and consent of the person who is subject to the request. The subject of the request must sign the official State of New Hampshire Criminal History Record Information Release Authorization Form. If the request is being submitted by a third party (landlord) the subject's authorization must be notarized.

 

Requests can be mailed into the State Police Criminal Records Unit or brought in person. There is a $25 fee for each record search. Once a request is received, via mail, by the state police Criminal Records Unit it is processed and sent out within three to seven business days. The Criminal Records unit will process up to five, in person, requests. Each request takes about five minutes to process.

 

In order to get up to date and accurate criminal histories for anyone who has ever resided in New Hampshire, one must request records directly with the New Hampshire State Police. Please do not rely on screening services to provide you with criminal records for New Hampshire.