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Montana Lowers Its County Court Fee for Criminal Background Checks

It isn’t often these days in this economy that I can report a case where  a state public service as actually lowered its pricing for such things as country criminal court fees or Motor Vehicle Driving Reports or MVRs.  As employers conduct these background checks as part of their preemployment screening program, it’s nice to see when fees are actually lowered.

But lo and behold, the Great State of Montana is lowering its court fees for county criminal records searches.  No, really.  Lower.  and not by a couple of pennies either.   Now if you wish to conduct county criminal background checks in Montana, court fees will cost you $11.50 per name per county.   This cost is down from the former pricing of $15.75 per name, per county.    Not bad at all.

The cost reduction went into effect July 23rd, 2010.  So please make a note of it.

By Gordon Basichis

Gordon Basichis is the Co-Founder of Corra Group, specializing in pre-employment background checks and corporate research. He has been a marketing and media executive and has worked in the entertainment industry, the financial, health care and technology sectors. He is the author of the best selling Beautiful Bad Girl, The Vicki Morgan Story, a non-fiction novel that helped define exotic sexuality in the late twentieth century. He is the author of the Constant Travellers and has recently completed a new book, The Guys Who Spied for China, dealing with Chinese Espionage in the United States. He has been a journalist for several newspapers and is a screenwriter and producer.