SmartBackgroundChecks
A background checksite that exposes your name, address, phone, and relatives. Here's what they collect, how to opt out, and why it matters if you're on the job.
What SmartBackgroundChecks collects
- Full name
- Current and prior addresses
- Phone numbers
- Approximate age
- Relatives and household members
- Court records and criminal history
How to opt out yourself
Direct opt-out: https://www.smartbackgroundchecks.com/optout
- Open https://www.smartbackgroundchecks.com/optout in a private window.
- Search your name on SmartBackgroundChecks to find your record.
- Submit the opt-out form.
- Provide an email address.
- Click the verification link in the email.
- Allow 7 business days for the listing to drop.
What SmartBackgroundChecks knows about you
SmartBackgroundChecks is a mid-tier background-check site with standard people-search data plus court records. They're heavy on the court-aggregator data — old citations, dismissed charges, and traffic entries from out-of-state appearances tend to surface here even when they've stopped showing on the bigger sites.
Why it matters if you're on the job
The court-record padding is the part that bites. An expungement order in your state doesn't automatically reach the upstream aggregators SmartBackgroundChecks pulls from. Your home address is the bigger exposure for most officers, but if you've got a sealed entry and want it gone, this is a site where it tends to linger.
How to opt out
Standard search-claim-verify-by-email flow. Steps in optOutSteps above.
What we do that's faster
We file the SmartBackgroundChecks opt-out and re-check every two weeks.
Doing this for one broker is straightforward. Doing it for 200, on a continuous basis, is what we do.
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