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Steven Brownstein Speaks To NAPBS Members About International Background Checks
It began as a side business for Steven Brownstein, who was in the 1990's the USA's largest provider of criminal background searches. With over 60 employees, Steven provided records 24 hours a day, 5 days a week, plus a half-day on Saturdays.
DAC Services, the Tulsa - based sister company had expanded service to Canada and Puerto Rico. Also, the World Gaming Network, another sister company, based in Las Vegas, was receiving requests for criminal record searches on foreign soil.
That's where Brownstein came in. He had already built a giant network of record retrievers throughout the US. He was processing more than 6,000 request per day and turnaround time was excellent.
So that's how it began.
Brownstein flew to Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, Canada to visit the courts.
He knew about the RCMP's CPIC search but found too may flaws in their record keeping , plus a long turnaround time, and actually, too much paperwork had to be collected, submitted, and tracked per request. Not particularly cost effective for pre-employment screening. The contacts he did make at the Canadian courts proved to be invaluable. Good, quality searches with little or no paperwork to handle.
Then he also flew to San Juan, Puerto Rico, met with their staff, and was assigned a public access computer whereby he could come weekly to the court and do searches
This was the beginning of international searches in the USA and he was at the forefront.
His techniques were simple - just continue applying the methods that I used providing USA domestic background checks.
And the techniques were successful. He expanded international search offerings to the total USA pre-emplyment screening industry.
Even though, initially, the quantity of requests was small, Steven Brownstein did see that the end result for foreign searches would be high volume. And as you know, today it is.
Remember, no one was doing international searches. He was the first.
His business expanded and England was the next on the list. He flew to London to run the first ever searches at Horseferry Magistrate Court and the Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court. He ran them successfully, adding he obtained copies of a case from the Crown Court.
That was the beginning. India came next, and so on and so forth.
Quoting Brownstein, "It is my pleasure to continue this dynamic, exponentially growing business opportunity to the pre-employment screening industry. And as one of the first to foresee the beginnings of NAPBS, and having stuck around to see its growth, I say thank you."
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