If you want to know whether or not someone has a criminal record then the best thing that you can do is to do a criminal records search on them. There are a lot of ways that you can go about checking to see if they have a criminal record. The first thing that you can do is to pay one of the criminal records web sites to do the work for you. These web sites will charge you a fee, but they will be able to tell you about any criminal records that the person has without you needing to do the work yourself.