FYI - asking for an SSN and DOB on an employment application or during an interview is illegal, hence the separate signed release forms that most employers ask for only at the time of a conditional job offer in order to run a background check through a legitimate professional background check provider. And a lot of these cheap internet services where you or anyone provide just a name and a state, city or even address and where you are not required to provide a signed release, SSN and DOB and they do not run matches against them, are often not reliable, they just run a query against other internet databases and a lot of what they return is not accurate.
Out of curiosity I once ran one of these cheap internet background checks on myself and half of what it turned up was inaccurate, no criminal records but half the addresses and dates were wrong, my DOB was wrong (it said it was 10+ years older than actually am) it showed my most recent employer but it showed before that only a job I had some 10 years earlier, making it appear that I hadn’t worked for 10 years and it also showed my present address as being that of my ex-husband and his new wife (which would have been a big shock to them both) and it showed my ex as having not only resided at the house that I bought and lived in for five years after our divorce as being his address also but also him being a co-owner of the house I bought on my own.
Any employer, who runs a pre-employment background check using one of these cheap scam internet services and without a signed release and a cross check of SSN and DOB, is asking for big trouble legally. With a legitimate service and in a case where an employer rejects an applicant based on the findings of the background check, just as with a legitimate credit reporting agency, the applicant will be informed, has to legally be informed of a negative finding with instructions on how to contact the reporting agency(s) and if they believe there is a mistake, and how to correct it.
FWIW, I was friends with a guy who was a Naval officer with a rather high SC, worked for NSA, who relocated from CA to MD and evidently someone with his same rather common name, had not only lived in his former town but at one time in his former apartment complex and this guy not only had several outstanding CA tickets but a few outstanding arrest warrants and my friend not only had a heck of a time getting an MD driver’s license but for a short time, ended up on a “no-fly” list before he was able to finally clear things up.
Im sure its different state to state. But in The Socialist Republic of MN, the state has a website where you can look up anybody’s records. For free, all you need is a name.