sort of information that may be of assistance to the person making the background check, all public records of any type could be used, but for specific types of background checks, there are some documents that would be more helpful than others. for example, for criminal background checks, the three types of documents that are going to be of most assistance would be arrest records, court records, and prison records, a trio of public records usually referred to as criminal records.
now, one of the first places where copies of records could be obtained is the office of the recorder, because this is the function of this office, to store public 