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Most Newcomers Lack Critical Knowledge of International Court Record Retrieval: PBSA APAC 2025

December 05, 2025 posted by Steve Brownstein

PBSA APAC 2025: The International Background Screening Challenge

The observation post-PBSA APAC 2025 is that most newcomers lack critical knowledge of international court record retrieval, focusing instead on simple internet/database searches.

This "internet search-only" strategy is a massive risk for global employment screening:

• 1. Ignoring Primary Sources: In most of the world, court records are not fully available online. True retrieval requires accessing the physical courthouse, police precinct, or secure government portals. Internet databases are often incomplete, outdated, and miss critical local records.

• 2. High Compliance Risk: Relying on unsourced or aggregated data poses a severe legal threat, violating global privacy laws (like GDPR) and jeopardizing an end-client’s FCRA compliance (as we have discussed regarding complex international checks). You lose control over the source and the legality of using the data for employment decisions.

• 3. Inaccurate Results: Name-only searches lead to high rates of false positives (misidentification) or false negatives (missed records). This defeats the purpose of due diligence by prioritizing speed/low cost over necessary accuracy and completeness.

The industry must urgently address this knowledge gap through targeted education, emphasizing that legitimate international screening demands primary source verification and rigorous adherence to local laws, not shortcuts via commercial web searches.