State of California
A notary public background check is required by the Secretary of State's
office in California for all seeking to become commissioned as a notary
public. The background check is completed by the Department of Justice,
State of California and now additionally by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI).
Current commissioned California Notary Publics can be assured that you are
in compliance and authorized to complete any notary services within the
State of California, including the handling and completing of loan documents.
If you would like to obtain a copy of your
"State Summary Criminal History Record"
on file with the Department of Justice in California, you can find this
information at
http://ag.ca.gov/fingerprints/security.php
and apply for a copy of your information.
Other States
Most states do not require a background check to be performed at the time
you are commissioned as a Notary Public, but some states do require this
background check.
Federal Law pertaining to the Handling of Personal Information
In 1999, the U.S. Congress passed
The Gramm-Leach,
Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act (Gramm-Leach, 15 U.S.C. subchapter
1, section 6801-6809)
which became law. Because of this federal mandate to protect the consumer’s
personal information, some of the lending and title services are
requiring all persons handling sensitive personal information to have a more
extensive background check. As a Certified Notary Signing Agent handling
loan documents, you may be requested to comply with this additional
background check by these service companies.
Notary Public Background Check
We are offering what is arguably the most comprehensive background check
in the industry. The NPBC Level 3 check, unlike the NNA/Signix solution, offers:
- Live identity verification
- County criminal searches + at least one Federal district search
- Criminal searches against AKAs
- Multi-company participation/sponsorship
What does this mean? Under the NNA/Signix check, there appears to be
a greater likelihood that a person convicted of various Federal crimes
- a multitude of different types of fraud, racketeering, money laundering,
etc. - will not be exposed. As well, since they do not appear to be
running multi-name, multi-county permutations, it seems more likely that
a criminal with multiple names - whether maiden names or otherwise
legally-changed names - may not be exposed.
We are a proud sponsor of the Notary Public Background Check and our
sponsorship can be seen at
http://www.notarypublicbackgroundcheck.com/sponsors.asp
If there are any questions related to the NPBC Certification that are not
covered on the web site
(http://www.notarypublicbackgroundcheck.com/)
that you would like answered, we would be happy to address them.
We are now including this training in our “Certified Notary Signing Agent”
class. We offer you this Notary Public Background Check without a requirement
of membership or any additional purchasing of product or services. You can
access a copy of the “Information Stewardship & Security Awareness Training”
(Notary Public Edition GLBA Training Module) Offered in Support of the Notary
Public Background Check (NPBC) Certification Program at
Notary-Public-ISSAT-NLC.pdf
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