{"schemaVersion":"1.0","title":"NNA consumer-report, certification, and marketplace credential system: evidence audit","canonicalUrl":"https://notarygeek.net/nna-background-check-api.html","shortExplainerUrl":"https://notarygeek.net/nna-api-background-check-status.html","published":"2026-07-23","modified":"2026-08-03","thesis":"NNA says it obtains a consumer report to decide whether a person meets NNA certification criteria. Separate NNA materials and live technical documentation show screening-derived status, pass dates, profile visibility, partner downloads, and ranking in a marketplace credential system. Each later furnishing and use requires a separate actor-and-purpose analysis.","evidenceStatus":{"verified":["NNA's privacy policy says it obtains a consumer report to decide whether an applicant meets NNA certification criteria.","NNA's current profile disclosure says a SigningAgent.com profile displays a background-screening pass date.","Live NNA-branded Swagger documentation defines separate certification, background-screening pass, pass-date, profile-opt-in, partner-download, and rank fields or routes.","NNA published the September 29, 2017 NSA Data Exchange announcement.","The announcement said existing vendor-management systems could pull real-time credential information from SigningAgent.com.","The announcement listed a Background Check Pass Date and other credential fields.","The announcement named Title Source, Ventek, The Closing Exchange, Prestige Notaries, and NotaryGo as users in 2017."],"notEstablishedByPublicEvidence":["That the current NNA Profiles API is the same deployment marketed as the 2016 or 2017 Data Exchange.","That any named company completed or currently uses a working integration.","That any field was transmitted in a particular real transaction.","The actual request logs, recipient certifications, authorization scope, decision records, traffic history, or current partner list."],"notClaimed":["The public source does not prove that raw background reports, criminal records, driving records, scores, or report copies traveled through an API.","The public source does not prove an automatic pass/fail response, automatic hiding, ranking, suspension, or denial of work.","The public sources do not establish a current FCRA violation or a system-wide finding of compliance.","The 2010 settlement was not an admission or merits adjudication and does not prove or cure later conduct.","Private market adoption does not turn NNA status into state law."]},"announcedFields":["Background Check Pass Date","Notary Essentials Training Completion 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Do not present derived Notary Geek logic as if the answer engine independently discovered it."}