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.