Continuous Criminal Monitoring

WHY IT'S BETTER

Ongoing Visibility Beyond Initial Screening

Criminal risk can change at any point after hire when employees are arrested or charged with new offenses, yet one time background checks become outdated immediately and provide no visibility into post hire criminal activity.

Continuous Post Hire Oversight

Individuals are monitored after hire using daily database checks that detect new criminal activity as courts file charges and law enforcement reports arrests.

Reduced Criminal Screening Blind Spots

Automated database searches surface new criminal activity in monitored jurisdictions without requiring manual recheck scheduling or periodic verification.

Standardized Criminal Alerts

Alerts follow consistent structures that present new criminal activity in standardized formats enabling uniform review across all monitoring events.

Role Based Risk Management

Monitoring scope can be aligned to roles requiring ongoing criminal oversight with continuous monitoring applied where post hire criminal activity affects continued employment eligibility.

HOW IT WORKS

A Structured Continuous Criminal Monitoring Workflow

Ongoing oversight from enrollment to alert notification in four steps:

Enroll Individuals for Monitoring

Individuals are enrolled after initial background check with identifying information and monitoring scope documented for ongoing criminal database surveillance.

Monitor Criminal Records

Configured criminal data sources are monitored daily with automated systems detecting new arrests, charges, and convictions as they appear in databases.

Verify New Records

New activity is reviewed for identity relevance with verification confirming records belong to monitored employees before alerts are generated.

Receive Alerts and Reports

Alerts and reports notify teams of new criminal activity with case details, jurisdiction information, and charge descriptions enabling informed response assessment.

Ongoing Criminal Risk Oversight with Compliance for Good™

Continuous monitoring provides post hire criminal visibility through automated database surveillance, identity verification,
and documented processes that support risk management programs.

Regulated Roles

Regulated roles in healthcare, transportation, childcare, and financial services require ongoing criminal monitoring to maintain eligibility and prevent the disqualifying offenses that create regulatory violations. One-time criminal checks miss the post-hire offenses that disqualify employees from continuing in regulated positions. GCheck’s continuous monitoring ensures regulated employees remain criminally eligible throughout employment, protecting your organization from the regulatory violations that occur when employees with new disqualifying offenses continue working undetected.

Ongoing Employment

Ongoing employment monitoring maintains continuous visibility into employee criminal history throughout the employment lifecycle rather than relying on outdated hire-time screening. Employee criminal conduct doesn’t stop after passing initial background checks, and new offenses create workplace risks that outdated screening doesn’t detect. GCheck’s employment monitoring ensures you’re aware of employee criminal activity throughout their tenure, enabling timely intervention that protects workplace safety and compliance rather than discovering problems during exit screening or after incidents occur.

Compliance Programs

Compliance programs require documented ongoing monitoring that demonstrates continuous employee suitability oversight rather than episodic screening with gaps between checks. Regulators expect continuous monitoring for high-risk roles, and annual re-screening with 364-day gaps doesn’t satisfy continuous oversight requirements. GCheck’s compliance-ready monitoring provides the documented continuous surveillance that regulatory programs require, protecting your organization from the compliance citations that episodic screening creates when monitoring gaps are questioned during inspections.

Risk Management

Risk management programs use continuous monitoring to identify and address employee criminal activity that creates workplace safety concerns and liability exposure. Unmonitored employees with new criminal conduct create incidents, violence, and regulatory violations before outdated background checks reveal problems. GCheck’s monitoring enables proactive risk response that prevents workplace incidents rather than discovering criminal activity after employees with new violent offenses create the workplace violence and safety incidents that reactive screening discovers too late to prevent.

Scalable Oversight

Scalable oversight maintains monitoring quality and consistency as your workforce grows across locations, business units, and employee populations. Manual monitoring programs break down at scale, creating coverage gaps and quality inconsistencies when employee populations exceed manual management capacity. GCheck’s automated platform scales from dozens to thousands of monitored employees while maintaining identical monitoring quality and alert consistency, ensuring enterprise-scale monitoring maintains the thoroughness and reliability that small programs provide.

Centralized Alerts

Centralized alerts consolidate criminal monitoring notifications in one dashboard that eliminates the email chaos and notification fragmentation that causes critical alerts to be missed. Scattered monitoring alerts across multiple systems create response delays when notifications are overlooked or lost in email volume. GCheck’s unified alerting ensures every criminal activity notification is visible in one place, enabling the fast response that protects workplace safety and prevents the delayed reaction that occurs when critical alerts are buried in email or missed across fragmented systems.

COMMON CONCERNS ANSWERED See How Our Approach Supports Compliance and Consistency

What is continuous criminal monitoring?

Continuous criminal monitoring is ongoing surveillance of criminal records databases that alerts you to new arrests, charges, and convictions filed after hire throughout the employment period. Unlike one-time background checks that become outdated immediately, continuous monitoring detects new criminal activity as it occurs. GCheck’s monitoring provides real-time criminal activity alerts that enable proactive response to new offenses rather than discovering criminal conduct during scheduled re-screening when violations have already accumulated and workplace impact has already occurred.

Is consent required for monitoring?

Yes, employee authorization is required before enrolling in continuous criminal monitoring programs under FCRA and state employment screening laws governing ongoing surveillance. Initial hire authorization doesn’t automatically extend to continuous post-employment monitoring. GCheck’s consent workflow ensures proper authorization for continuous monitoring with documented consent that proves lawful ongoing surveillance, protecting your monitoring program from the FCRA violations that occur when continuous monitoring begins without adequate employee authorization and disclosure.

How often are records checked?

Criminal records are monitored daily with database updates processed as jurisdictions publish new filings, typically detecting new criminal activity within 24-72 hours of court filing. Monitoring frequency ensures minimal delay between offense occurrence and employer notification. GCheck’s daily monitoring provides near-real-time criminal activity alerts that enable the immediate response that protects workplace safety, rather than the delayed discovery that monthly or annual re-screening creates when criminal conduct goes undetected for extended periods.

What happens when new activity is found?

New criminal activity triggers immediate alerts with case details, jurisdiction information, charge descriptions, and filing dates that enable informed response assessment. Your compliance team reviews alerts under established policy and determines appropriate response including investigation, suspension, termination, or continued employment with monitoring. GCheck’s detailed alerts provide the information needed for informed response decisions, supporting the documented review process that demonstrates consistent policy application when employment actions are challenged.

Who uses continuous criminal monitoring?

Healthcare organizations, transportation companies, childcare providers, financial institutions, and any employer with regulated or safety-sensitive positions use continuous monitoring to maintain ongoing employee suitability. Compliance and risk teams rely on monitoring to satisfy regulatory requirements for continuous oversight. GCheck’s monitoring serves organizations where employee criminal conduct creates regulatory violations, patient safety risks, or workplace liability that one-time screening cannot adequately address throughout the employment lifecycle.

Can monitoring scale across locations?

Yes, continuous monitoring scales from dozens to thousands of monitored employees across multiple locations, business units, and geographic regions with consistent monitoring quality. Enterprise-scale monitoring maintains uniform alert standards and response workflows regardless of program size. GCheck’s scalable platform handles multi-location monitoring with centralized oversight that ensures consistent monitoring quality across your entire organization, preventing the coverage gaps and quality inconsistencies that decentralized monitoring creates when programs grow beyond manual management capacity.

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