Reporting your past to employers

I'd ask my Sherriff's department to look it up if you're worried about something showing up.

 

That wouldn't do you any good.

Background checks are carried out via one of two typical sources, the FBI database or private contractor (professional investigator that has access to a database of all state arrest & conviction records, similar to FBI but the data may be more or less in depth). Either way, they're far more detailed than a local leo's records.

 

Eastern points , always , always tell the whole truth on a job app. You may slip through the cracks at a few places, who is to say. But what happens let's say after 5 years and you get a line on a really great job...great wages , great home-time , great health ins/retirement benefits , I'm talking about that job you can plan on retiring from...You don't answer all the questions or inquiries completely and 100% truthfully and they do an extensive , maybe life-long back-ground check...and lots of the best companies do that. They want like another poster put it..."someone they can trust",,,well if you're not forth-coming and they find it out you're sunk..no job....It's just not worth the risk....no at all.

 

Not always true. In my experience the states criminal background check is the most accurate.

A FBI criminal background check ironically often does not show everything that is on a state criminal background check so I would do a state check for every state you had issues in. I did both a state and federal one on myself to submit for permission to go into Canada and my DUI from 20 years ago did not show up on the FBI check but was on my state record. I know of two other people that had the same experience with their records not showing on the FBI check when they did show on a state check.

I see the OP is from North Carolina so he can get his at http://ncdoj.gov/About-DOJ/State-Bu...ion-and-Identification/Background-Checks.aspx. You can use Google to find out how to get a criminal background check in other states as every state is different. In Michigan (where I did mine) it can be done on-line with a credit card at http://apps.michigan.gov/ICHAT/Home.aspx.

 

You say not always true, then support my post. Nice.

State criminal background checks are accurate... for that state. But that local leo has no idea what might turn up outside of his jurisdiction.

Not all convictions are reported to the FBI (especially misdemeanors, except for domestic violence). Domestic violence offenses will show up on an FBI background check whether you're convicted or not - arrests are also reported to them.

A quality professional investigation service is the way to go to see what all is out there on a person. A tenacious PI can find out about convictions on an applicant even if that applicant didn't mention living in a particular area in order to try to avoid having a conviction discovered.

 

When I said “not always true” I was saying that the FBI Check is not always the most accurate or inclusive, something you seemed to have indicated. I was recommending a state criminal background check over the FBI one as in my experience they contain the most information.

I was just trying to point out to the OP that it is a simple process to find out directly from the states you have lived in what information there is on yourself. Your post seemed to imply that you must get a "professional investigator" to get access to the state database and that is just not true. Every state has the means for someone to get their own records and for far less the some professional investigator or service will charge you.

 

You like to imply a lot of ######## in my words. Nowhere did I say it was necessary to hire a PI firm to get one's own records. I was talking about the resources available to employers.

 

Let me chime in here I got arrested a few years ago and charged with a crime I didn't commit was even found guilty of a felony and was charged as youthful offender. My record was sealed the judge herself said if anyone asks you never committed a felony and I never have. Not sure if your case is like that in any way but that's mine and no one is the wiser.