What we'll review:
Federal Criminal Offering
Setting Up deverusDirect for Federal Criminal
Viewing InfoPlus Federal Criminal Results in QA
Filtering Options
Page Fees
Frequently Asked Questions
Federal Criminal Searches Offered by deverusDirect
deverus is proud to announce our first ever deverusDirect researcher availability for Federal Criminal search types. Pricing information for is included in a document attached to this article below.
You will now have direct and automatic access into the PACER system, without having to manually login to run results. You will receive full results when available in PACER, including:
Case Number
File Date
Disposition and Date
Type of Crime
Court Fees and Sentencing/Other
Setting Up deverusDirect Federal Criminal Search
In your researcher network, you will find researcher ID: deverusresearcher. Make sure the Communication Method for this researcher is set to 'Vero to Vero Connection,' and the Other Vero System is set to 'InfoPlus.'
Navigate to Researcher -> Researcher Network -> Federal Criminal. From here, you can choose 'Add Federal Criminal Researcher to every district,' or you can click the individual state/district and assign the InfoPlus researcher. The detailed steps can be found here: Configuring the Researcher Network.
*NOTE* To simplify ordering options for clients, only enable states and disable individual districts and regions. This is best practice.
Federal Criminal QA Results
Results will look like this:
The enhanced view contains more fields from PACER including name, district, case ID, file date, disposition, disposition date, and type. This view also includes the option to delete selected cases that are returned with the 'Delete Checked' button.
Default Scope and Filter Settings
Last Updated: 1/24/2020
When using deverusDirect as a researcher for the Federal Criminal report type, the following Filters are used. These cannot be edited or changed:
Data Only Service
Search by Full Name.
Other common search configurations:
Partial first name (3 letters) + full/exact last name.
Filter cases where file date indicates subject would be 17 or younger.
Filter petty offense cases older than 7 years.
Filter cases where all charges are misdemeanor or petty offenses.
Middle name or initial is not required but recommended.
Unlimited year Pacer search scope by file date (return all possible records).
All case details returned but have no DOB and other ID’S are limited.
Further record/id verification is required.
Max result of 25 cases if no middle initial provided, notification sent to request middle to limit fees.
Page Fees
deverus will pass over a page fee to the CRA automatically if PACER is accessed for a hit. This is the same .10 cents per page that you would be charged when logging into PACER directly.
The fee will show as a detail on your invoice and on the report level pricing:
Frequently Asked Questions
Question: How can I communicate with the researcher?
Answer: Through adding a vero to vero researcher note.
Question: Can I send this researcher search level documents?
Answer: Documents are not available with this integration.
Note: InfoPlus cannot support criminal searches for business entities.