We cannot control the accuracy and completeness of government records. Many times, the official documentation of an offense has missing information — for ex...

Garbo does not have access to all public records in every jurisdiction — meaning we may be missing arrests or conviction records on an individual (often due...

You may see different error messages appear if more than one person was found or that this individual was unable to be located based on the information you ...

This means our system could not narrow down the search to one individual. If the “More than 1 person found. Please provide more detailed searching crite...

If the “Could not locate any person with the search criteria” message appears, please contact us and provide all the search fields you entered and we will i...

Garbo uses the information you provide for internal purposes, including improving our technology, data matching, and new feature development.  We will n...

A “no records found” result in Garbo means that we were unable to locate any arrests, convictions, or sex offender registry data in our system.  Certain...

While we always suggest using Garbo in safe situations, we recognize that our users may be in potentially unsafe situations when using Garbo.  If you ne...

Garbo recommends users in unsafe situations to use Garbo’s platform in a private browsing (often called “incognito”) mode which will not save the sites y...

All searches are confidential and the individual searched is not notified when or if they have been searched.