Brazoria County, Texas Court Records (Greater Houston Metropolitan Area)

One part of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, Brazoria County, is a fast-growing locale with a population of 372,000. Nearby counties include Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Matagorda, and Wharton. Notable employers in the area include the Dow Chemical Company, the Pearland school district, and Safeway.

Still somewhat rural, Brazoria County continues to support expanding suburbs as a part of the Houston metro area. A strong presence from heavy industrial companies, such as Dow, keeps the employment market lively and active, contributing to the continued influx of new arrivals from other places in the Houston metropolitan area. As a result of these trends, employers throughout the region will more frequently encounter applicants from diverse points of origin in the metro. Hiring effectively in these conditions requires a pre-employment screening policy to ensure you don’t miss important information.

To find the candidates you’d prefer to hire in Brazoria County, you must conduct careful vetting for all candidates. At the same time, you must do so in a way that does not conflict with your obligations under the law to use background checks properly. All employers should create a written policy that explains why and how they will use such screening tools.

Texas has no statewide “ban the box” law that would constrain how private employers ask about or investigate candidate criminal histories. The law similarly unconstrains drug tests for employment. Neither Brazoria County nor any of its individual cities have any fair chance laws on the books.

With no specific state or county rules to follow about background checks, Brazoria County employers must undertake a review of their obligations under federal law. This includes both EEOC regulations and the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Per the FCRA, you must always obtain a candidate’s written consent to an employment background check. During this process, you must also provide a standalone disclosure of the individual’s rights. If you choose to take adverse action based on negative background check results, you must give notice and time for the candidate to review the results, as defined by the FCRA.

Once you’ve built a process and written a policy that complies with the relevant regulations, actually screening candidates is the next step. To cover as much ground as possible with your first move, we recommend a search encompassing the Greater Houston metropolitan area and beyond. The US OneSEARCH delivers just that, with nearly instant results from nationwide resources. Check out all our current US OneSEARCH sources on our online coverage map.

When you order a background check through the US OneSEARCH, you’ll receive a report that pulls results from the following sources:

• The Texas Department of Public Safety, which furnishes felony and misdemeanor records from 1975 to the present day.
• Brazoria County District and County Court records, which contains misdemeanour records only from 1987 to the present day.

The digital repository for county court records updates only one time per month. As a result, if you have an applicant with an active or pending case in this area, it is possible for there to be a more recent case update than what’s available online. In such cases, our direct county courthouse searches offer a way to obtain the most up-to-date information available on your applicant at this time.

Background reports sourced from county court records may include the subject’s:

• Name
• Offense/Charge
• Sentence
• Disposition

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