Sex-offender screening for elder care & assisted living
Screen caregivers, aides, and facility staff against every US sex-offender registry with source-verified results — built for organizations serving elderly and vulnerable residents.
No code needed — search from your dashboard, or integrate the full API when you’re ready.
The problem for assisted-living and elder-care operators
- Caregivers work closely with elderly and vulnerable residents
- Multi-facility operators need one consistent nationwide check
- Compliance requires documented, source-verified screening
Outcomes
- Standardize screening across every facility
- Continuously re-verify active caregivers
- Keep a source-verified compliance record
How Offendersearch helps
One consistent nationwide check
The same API covers every state a multi-facility operator works in, catching out-of-state history in one call.
Recurring re-verification
Keep active caregivers continuously re-checked with Weekly or Daily freshness tiers.
Documented provenance
Every hit carries source provenance and its lastCheckedAt for the compliance file.
What the law actually requires
Assisted living inherits the same two-sided structure as skilled nursing, but the resident-side duty is written more explicitly in some states — and it comes with a disclosure obligation attached. Virginia is the clearest worked example in the country, and it is worth reading in full even if you operate elsewhere, because it shows what a legislature asks for once it decides the question matters.
| Jurisdiction | Citation | Applies to | What it requires |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 22VAC40-73-350(B) | Residents | The facility must ascertain, prior to admission, whether a prospective resident is a registered sex offender where the stay will exceed three days, and document the determination in the resident record. |
| Virginia | 22VAC40-73-350(A) | Residents | The facility must register with the Department of State Police to receive notice of any sex offender registration or reregistration in the facility’s zip code area. |
| Virginia | 22VAC40-73-350(C)–(D) | Residents | Residents must be informed about registry information prior to or at admission and annually thereafter, with written acknowledgment retained; on request the facility must assist in accessing the information and provide printed copies. |
| Virginia | 12VAC5-371-150(H) | Residents | The parallel nursing-facility rule, for operators running both licence types: registry status must be ascertained prior to admission for any stay expected to exceed three days. |
Citations link to the primary text. This is background, not legal advice — obligations change, and your counsel is the right reader of your own facts.
And what it doesn’t
There is no federal assisted-living analogue to any of this. Assisted living is licensed state by state, and most states impose no resident-side registry duty at all — the obligations above are Virginia’s, not the country’s. Equally, the CMS National Background Check Program is sometimes cited as though it were a standing requirement; it was a voluntary state grant programme, its funding ended, and the last participating states exited in May 2024. Operators screening residents outside a state that requires it are acting on duty of care and insurer expectation, which is a sound basis — just not a statutory one.
Screening practices for assisted-living and elder-care operators
Check the licence type, not the building
A campus running assisted living and skilled nursing under separate licences may sit under two different rule sets on the same site. Virginia writes the same duty twice, in two chapters, for exactly that reason.
Build the disclosure into admission paperwork
Where a state requires residents to be informed about registry access, the acknowledgment is part of the duty. Handling it as a form at admission — and again annually — is far easier than reconstructing it later.
Screen before the three-day line, not after it
Rules keyed to length of stay create a trap for respite and short-stay admissions that extend. Screening every admission avoids having to predict which ones will run long.
Re-screen the standing census
Registration status changes after move-in. A periodic sweep of current residents and staff keeps the picture accurate beyond admission day.
Questions from assisted-living and elder-care operators
Does this replace our broader background checks?
It complements them. Offendersearch covers sex-offender registries specifically and is designed to slot into a broader screening and credentialing process.
Is the data current enough for a care setting?
Use the Daily freshness tier for near-live re-verification; every record shows its lastCheckedAt.
Registry and criminal records on one key
Most assisted-living and elder-care operators need more than one check, and running two vendors means two integrations, two contracts and two invoices. Both run on the same account, the same key and the same response shape.
Sex offender registry
58 US registries — the 50 states, DC and the territories — continuously updated, with photographs, aliases, addresses and the official record citation on every match.
Criminal records
more than a thousand county, state and federal jurisdictions — county jail rosters, statewide prison systems, court records and warrants — with coverage in every US state, in the same scored, source-cited schema.
1,375
county jurisdictions in the criminal roster — the layer where most US matters begin, and the one thin vendors skip.
51
states with a live statewide prison system, for the post-conviction picture in the same call.
58
US sex offender registries, continuously updated — the check assisted-living and elder-care operators are most often required to run.
See what each state publishes, or the live list at /v1/criminal/sources.
Per check, with no floor underneath it
$0.15 a call, dropping to $0.11 for every call past 2,000 in a calendar month. No setup fee, no per-seat licence, no monthly minimum and no annual contract — so the price scales down with you as well as up.
| Checks / month | Cost | Per check |
|---|---|---|
| 500 | $75.00 | $0.1500 |
| 5,000 | $630.00 | $0.1260 |
| 50,000 | $5,580.00 | $0.1116 |
A batch is billed per row, so bulk screening costs the same per person as a single lookup. Full pricing · screen a CSV without code.
Screen assisted-living and elder-care operators with one API
Screen caregivers, aides, and facility staff against every US sex-offender registry with source-verified results — built for organizations serving elderly and vulnerable residents.