
Fast-Track Criminal Background Checks with Smart Screen™
Worried about compliance and the accuracy of your background checks? In partnering with Equifax®, 3rd Degree Screening now offers access to Smart Screen. With Smart Screen, you get faster, more reliable results, helping reduce or eliminate the need for manual reviews and also helping reduce errors. This solution, governed by the FCRA, leverages a robust proprietary incarceration data network and sex offender registry network for more accurate information to help you often speed up hiring decisions, and save more of your valuable time.
How Smart Screen™ Can Help You Improve Your Screening Process
Smart Screen operates within the strict guidelines of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, helping provide more legal and ethical data usage.
It leverages two more comprehensive data networks, including a national incarceration database and a sex offender registry, for more reliable information.
This product helps streamline the initial background check process, and helps save time and resources for both employers and courts.
Smart Screen helps you automate the initial verification of critical records, to help reduce manual effort and administrative burden.
By quickly identifying candidates without critical records, it helps empower faster and more informed hiring decisions.
In cases where an initial “No Records Found” result is generated, pass through court access fees in high cost jurisdictions can be reduced and sometimes eliminated.

Two Powerful Solutions for More Streamlined Background Checks

Help Speed Up Your Time-to-Hire and Screening Workflow with Smart Screen™ - TalentCheck
For background screeners and employers seeking to simplify and expedite their workflow, Smart Screen - TalentCheck offers a more powerful solution. By instantly checking a robust incarceration data network and sex offender registry network for records using just a social security number, Smart Screen - TalentCheck can help reduce the manual research typically required. This automated initial check delivers a "no records found" result when applicable, helping lessen workloads and allowing screeners to identify candidates quicker who may or may not require further investigation.
Simplifying Court-Ordered Background Checks with Smart Screen™ - CourtCheck
When a more comprehensive search is required, Smart Screen - CourtCheck takes the screening process a step further, helping simplify the often time-consuming and complex process of court research for criminal records. Smart Screen - CourtCheck also instantly checks a proprietary incarceration data network and sex offender registry networks for the absence of risk-related records. If a “no records found” result is not immediately available, automated court research is performed in covered jurisdictions. This research helps you reduce or remove multi-step processes in some cases and helps you with digital retrieval where possible for quicker turnaround times. It delivers detailed court record outputs when available in 24 hours or less and generates a consumer report when no records are found in a searched jurisdiction, helping you ensure more comprehensive results.

Why Choose 3rd Degree Screening for Your Background Checks?
More Seamless Background Screening with Smart Screen Integration
We're excited to offer a fully integrated Smart Screen experience within our software platform. This more streamlined workflow provides a more efficient and unified approach to background screening.
Exclusive Integration with Our Powerful Platform

Unmatched Expertise and Dedicated Support
We offer US-based customer service with dedicated account managers who bring extensive background screening experience to help you with your needs.
Unmatched Expertise and Dedicated Support

BSOAP Accredited
Our BSOAP accreditation provides assurance that we adhere to the highest industry standards, ensuring reliable and compliant background screening practices.
BSOAP Accredited


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With 3rd Degree Screening, you’ll leverage the power of Smart Screen for a more efficient and reliable background check experience. Our tailored solutions are designed to help you with your unique needs, often offering faster turnaround times and reducing the workload on your HR team, all while helping you with your compliance standards.
Smart Screen™ is a product of Equifax Inc., Atlanta, Georgia.
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