Sex-offender screening for real estate & short-term rentals
Screen hosts, guests, and agents against every US sex-offender registry — and search around any property address — with one scored, source-verified API call.
No code needed — search from your dashboard, or integrate the full API when you’re ready.
The problem for short-term rental platforms and real-estate operators
- Hosts and guests share space, so both sides need screening
- Guests and agents cross state lines; single-state checks miss them
- Listings and stays can’t wait on slow, manual registry lookups
Outcomes
- Screen hosts, guests, and agents in the booking or listing flow
- Search registrants around any property address
- Keep a source-verified record of each check
How Offendersearch helps
Address & radius search
Search by city, ZIP, or lat/lng with a radius to screen around a listing or a portfolio of properties.
Nationwide in one call
A single request covers every state, DC, and US territory, catching prior registrations wherever a host, guest, or agent has lived.
Scored, source-verified results
matchConfidence and source provenance on every hit give teams a defensible basis to act.
Questions from short-term rental platforms and real-estate operators
Can I search around a specific property?
Yes. Provide a ZIP or coordinates with a radius to return registrants near a listing or address. Radius matching sees only records we have geocoded — the large majority, but not all — so pair it with a name or ZIP search when completeness matters.
Are there limits on registry-based decisions?
Decisions based on this data are regulated; consult counsel for your jurisdictions and keep a human making the final call, with the search supplying the evidence.
Registry and criminal records on one key
Most short-term rental platforms and real-estate 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 short-term rental platforms and real-estate 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 short-term rental platforms and real-estate operators with one API
Screen hosts, guests, and agents against every US sex-offender registry — and search around any property address — with one scored, source-verified API call.