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Delays in the Illinois State Police Criminal Background Check

For those who conduct the Illinois State Criminal Non-Database Search as part of your preemployment background checks, we want to alert you that there will be a significant delay in the turnaround time.   The Illinois State Police, Bureau of Identification today that their server had a major crash on Saturday, August 21, 2010.     It will take a week at least to install a new server.    Until they can return searches that are backlogged in the system, it will take even longer still

So, all in all, it will be some time before the Illinois State Criminal records will be returned to full service.  For those employers in need of conducting background checks in Illinois for the time being you may want to consider running County Criminal Records Checks.    The County Criminal Records have not been affected by the server crash.

In the meantime, we will let you know when full service for the Illinois State Criminal Records has been restored.

By Gordon Basichis

Gordon Basichis is the Co-Founder of Corra Group, specializing in pre-employment background checks and corporate research. He has been a marketing and media executive and has worked in the entertainment industry, the financial, health care and technology sectors. He is the author of the best selling Beautiful Bad Girl, The Vicki Morgan Story, a non-fiction novel that helped define exotic sexuality in the late twentieth century. He is the author of the Constant Travellers and has recently completed a new book, The Guys Who Spied for China, dealing with Chinese Espionage in the United States. He has been a journalist for several newspapers and is a screenwriter and producer.