Are criminal records warrants also criminal records?

A criminal records report is one of the most popular public records. They are stored in a criminal record database - a powerful computer connected to the internet.

There are many different types of criminal records - criminal records warrants are one of these types. Criminal warrants may be issued by the court for many reasons but in every case the person should have committed a crime. Criminal records warrants usually are warrants for search or warrants for arrest.

Does criminal records databases contain past criminal records?

Criminal records databases contain a great number of records and some of them are past criminal records. In essence everyone who has committed a crime and has been arrested by the USA police has a criminal record. This record is filed in one of the criminal records databases. Since records for law offences are public everyone can search for past criminal records and find out information about someone's criminal past.

The easiest way to find criminal records however is not to search in each criminal records database separately but to register with a website that is already connected to all available criminal records databases. This way you will be able to search faster. Moreover this way of searching guarantees that you will find past criminal records even if you do not know in which database they were originally stored.