{"id":14694,"date":"2017-08-09T16:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T00:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spokeo.com\/compass\/?p=14694"},"modified":"2022-04-13T12:14:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T20:14:53","slug":"criminals-sex-offenders-life-millions-people-protecting-one-powerful-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spokeo.com\/compass\/criminals-sex-offenders-life-millions-people-protecting-one-powerful-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Are There Criminals or Sex Offenders in Your Life? Millions are Protecting Themselves With This Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recent troubling stats indicate that sex crimes are on the rise in the U.S. With more and more people finding themselves and the people around them victims, some are taking steps to protect themselves and their loved ones. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Worried there may be sex offenders in your life or neighborhood? It\u2019s more common than you think. Recently a father suspected his daughter was being harassed by her high school coach. He used a powerful criminal database called Spokeo to find out that her \u2018coach\u2019 was an imposter and listed on the sex offender registry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With Spokeo, millions of Americans, and not just parents, are protecting themselves and their families with the same tool utilized by various investigative professionals across the country, and it\u2019s easier (and cheaper) than you\u2019d guess. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2>How Spokeo Finds Criminals<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spokeo crawls billions of public records, criminal reports, arrest records, state and federal databases and social media to connect the dots for you. Just by entering a name, phone number or home address, you can get a comprehensive report and profile in seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spokeo searches and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spokeo.com\/background-check?_pubrel_blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">aggregates public records<\/a>. You could theoretically do this yourself, but how fast can you search billions of records, 95 social media profiles, the entire White Pages and every state and federal sex offender registry? Spokeo does it in the time it takes you to open a new tab in your browser.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s what you get when you use Spokeo to find a criminal:<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Public criminal records, with details about sentencing and conviction<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arrest records<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Known aliases<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Possible friends and associates<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Online profiles \u2014 even ones they want to keep hidden<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Email addresses, phone numbers, and past addresses<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Data is constantly refreshed so users can be confident they are getting updated info, and regularly check back for changes to profiles and reports. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2>It\u2019s About Protection<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With sophisticated and powerful tools no longer only in the hands of investigative professionals, people everywhere across the country are beginning to realize how easy and efficient it is to protect themselves and their loved ones. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All you need is a name, phone number or home address. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spokeo.com\/background-check?_pubrel_blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spokeo<\/a> does the rest.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent troubling stats indicate that sex crimes are on the rise in the U.S. With more and more people finding themselves and the people around them victims, some are taking&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":14700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[612,630,614],"tags":[294],"class_list":["post-14694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides","category-product-usage","category-safety","tag-spokeo-reviews"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Are There Criminals or Sex Offenders in Your Life? 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