How This Site Works

  To conduct on-line criminal history record checks, you will proceed as follows:

1. Identify yourself.

 
• Determine what type of record check you want to accomplish and what available options are appropriate to your needs. You will choose whether you are checking your own or someone else’s record and select certification, fingerprint-based checks or any other services you may need.
   
• Provide payment for the record check. This is by credit card or by a pre-established account with Information Network Kansas.
   
2. Identify the person whose record you seek.

 
• You must submit the subject’s name and date of birth.
• You may enter a second last name (Other Last Name by Which Known) at no additional cost.
• The second last name and social security number are optional entries.
• Additional information to include social security number, race, sex, height, weight, place of birth, residence and occupation may also be helpful in locating the correct record.
   
3. Submit that information to search.  The search will be conducted and you will be presented the results of the search. There are four possible outcomes of a search of the Central Repository:

 
• No record. You will be presented a screen that summarizes the search and states that there is no matching record. You can print this as a document for your files.
   
• One or more candidate record(s) have been found and all are immediately available. You will be shown identifying data (name, date of birth, height, weight, race and sex) of the records that match the information you provided. If you provide a social security number and it is matched in our records, the matching social security number will be returned to you as confirmation. You will then select the record you want.
   
• A possible candidate record has been found but is not available online. This means that there may be a record in the non-automated portion of the Kansas Central Repository. Generally these are criminal history records that have some information that is held in paper form that has not yet been entered into the database. You will then direct the Central Repository staff to intervene off-line and determine whether or not there is matching record, bring it to fully automated status and release it to you.
   
• One or more candidate record(s) have been found AND a possible candidate record may also exist in the non-automated portion of the Repository. Here you will determine whether the subject of your search is one of the fully automated candidate records or, if not, you may select the option to have the Central Repository staff intervene off-line, determine if there is a matching non-automated record, automate it if found and release it to you.
   
4. Receive your results.

 
• If you receive a "no record" response, you can print that response to document the search.
   
• If you select a record from the list of fully automated candidate records, you will be immediately presented with the subject’s abstract of criminal history record information (also known as the "rap sheet"). You can print that if you so desire.
   
• If you choose to have the Central Repository staff research possible matching records in the non-automated portion of the repository, the following steps will occur:
   
  • You will be asked to provide any additional identifying information you have to assist in locating the correct record. The additional information is middle name, race, sex, height, weight, place of birth, residence and occupation.
  • The Central Repository staff will conduct an off-line review of the non-automated portion of the database and determine if there is a matching record. If one is located, the record will then be fully automated.
  • Within a day or so you will be notified by email or through this website that the results of your search are now available.
     
5. Obtain your results from an off-line search by the Central Repository. To obtain the results of an off-line search by the Central Repository, return to this web site and receive one of the following possible results:

 
• No record. The Central Repository staff has determined that there were no matching records in the non-automated portion of the repository.
   
• Record located and automated. In this case you will be able to view and print the subject’s criminal history record.
   
• Insufficient information. The staff was unable to distinguish between two or more possible records. This is the end of the record check process. If you can obtain more identifying information, you can return and repeat the search at a later time.
   
6. Review previous searches and responses. A seven day history of your searches and records selected is available when you log in with either the credit card you used for the searches or your INK Subscriber Account. This feature permits you to return and review your activity on this site.