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02-14-2008, 01:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NY | | | How can you find out what is on your criminal record?
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Is there some way to find out what if anything is on your criminal record? Or any public record about you for that matter? |
02-14-2008, 01:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Tyneside, UK | | | In Britain there is the Freedom of Information Act which means you could ask for certain types of info. The chances are that you can view YOUR record but not someone else's.
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02-14-2008, 01:07 PM
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Owner/Retailer: Jive Sound | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Alexandria,VA | | | If you've been busted for a misdeamor criminal act, you can get it expunged. Which means you can get all your files back, including fingerprints and mugshots. It's as if it never happened. But, not all government agencies are fully cooperative. As I understand, the FBI do not give records back. |
02-14-2008, 01:08 PM
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Originally Posted by jive1 If you've been busted for a misdeamor criminal act, you can get it expunged. Which means you can get all your files back, including fingerprints and mugshots. It's as if it never happened. | How do you go about doing that? |
02-14-2008, 01:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Tony G Is there some way to find out what if anything is on your criminal record? Or any public record about you for that matter? | ...Something you wanna share with the class, Tony?...  
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02-14-2008, 01:12 PM
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Originally Posted by mjolnir ...Something you wanna share with the class, Tony?... | Lol...nope, just want to know what is on my public record. |
02-14-2008, 01:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Vancouver, BC Canada | | | Well, here in Canada you go to your local police and ask to have a criminal record check done. Here, I believe you need a letter from an employer requesting the check be done.
You pay your $60 or whatever their fee is and a few weeks later they send you the record.
I'd call your local police and ask. |
02-14-2008, 01:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Tony G How do you go about doing that? |
Easy way is to get a lawyer in the county where the offense occurred and pay them to do most of the work for you.
Or you can go to the court where the infraction took place, and fill out all the paperwork for expungement. Fill that all out, turn it in and wait. You'll be getting court documents and stuff in the mail, but for some agencies, you'll have to follow up personally, depending on how thorough you want your expungement to be. Usually it will be local police and court records, and depending on the offense the FBI can be involved as well. Also other agenies may also be involved depending on the nature of the arrest, such as park rangers.
It differs from state to state, but typically you can get one misdemeanor expunged one year after the crime, given that you had no criminal violations during that time. |
02-14-2008, 01:19 PM
|  | Louisiana Superdome. S 127. R 22. S 12-13. Moderator | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Mobile, Al | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jive1 If you've been busted for a misdeamor criminal act, you can get it expunged. Which means you can get all your files back, including fingerprints and mugshots. It's as if it never happened. But, not all government agencies are fully cooperative. As I understand, the FBI do not give records back. | Not necessarily the case in all areas, though. Here in Alabama, particularly here in Mobile, they have stopped expunging records. Even though it was proven the warrant was issued and executed in error, my misdemeanor arrest will always be on my record unless they change the laws. One local judge was abusing the luxury of expungement and clearing some rather serious offenses for "friends", so ruined it for the rest of us.
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02-14-2008, 01:40 PM
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02-14-2008, 02:00 PM
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Originally Posted by 5andFretless Where do you live in NY? Long Island? If so, stop in and apply for a job with my company. We are a government contractor and we do extensive background checks of everyone. Law requires us to tell you if something in the search prevented you from being eligible for the job. We don't have any openings right now, but... | I live up near Albany and work for the Department of Defense. |
02-14-2008, 02:06 PM
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02-14-2008, 02:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Bob Clayton don't do anything wrong, and nothing will be on it. | So true. |
02-14-2008, 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Bob Clayton don't do anything wrong, and nothing will be on it. | Don't ever believe that. Not true at all. |
02-14-2008, 02:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Rattman Don't ever believe that. Not true at all. | No? What would be on it then? |
02-14-2008, 02:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Bob Clayton don't do anything wrong, and nothing will be on it. | beat me to it!  |
02-14-2008, 02:21 PM
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Originally Posted by jive1 It varies from locality to locality. But, you can be arrested and have it on your record regardless of whether there is a conviction tied to it. | That makes sense to me, but technically being arrested means you did something wrong, right? Even if you weren't convicted of anything?
Bob Clayton said don't do anything wrong, and nothing will be on it. |
02-14-2008, 02:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Bob Clayton don't do anything wrong, and nothing will be on it. | Wrong.
If you are arrested, you will have an arrest on your record regardless of whether there is a conviction tied to it.
You can be arrested because of mistaken identity, to stand for a lineup, for questioning, etc. and all of that has nothing to do with whether or not you did anything criminal.
The wacky thing is that if you are proven innocent, you still have to hunt down and get your records back in some communities so it doesn't show a prior arrest. |
02-14-2008, 02:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Tony G That makes sense to me, but technically being arrested means you did something wrong, right? Even if you weren't convicted of anything?
Bob Clayton said don't do anything wrong, and nothing will be on it. | Technically, arrested means taken in by the police. It doesn't necessarily have to be related to a crime, although typically it is. |
02-14-2008, 02:27 PM
|  | Life is Tough. Laugh more. Moderator | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Warwick, Rhode Island, USA | | | Well, if you have never been arrested, and have never had to
go to court, you have no criminal record.
Since you work for a defense contractor, request a copy of
your employment file from the HR department. Do so in
writing. Any background check they have done will be in
there.
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