Just thought I’d ask here. I’ve been searching online for a reputable place to give me a free criminal history of myself.
I know that might sound a bit odd.
I know my first arrest was in 1993, and my most recent one was almost 2 years ago, but there’s a few more in the middle and I can’t remember how some of them were adjudicated exactly. I’d just like to know what all would show up.
I’m thinking I’ve been arrested somewhere between 4 and 6 times total, and I know I’ve never been convicted of anything, I’d just like to see how all that shows up.
I can go to the police station and give them fingerprints, pay $25 and wait weeks for one to come back in the mail, but I just know there’s gotta be some way to do that online for free.
So come on ILP, help me reminisce on my criminal history this holiday season. It’ll be fun.
I just bit the bullet and walked into a jail today and got fingerprinted.
Honestly, I don’t trust the internet to be as accurate as I need it to be.
Pretty scary though. The cops didn’t understand that I was running a background check on myself, and they were quite suspicious, (presumably because I was admitting to having a record and just waled up to ask for a copy of it). They have a tendency to not like smart ass criminal types who can’t even remember how many times they’ve been arrested. Sad really. But funny at the same time. Something deep down inside me just knew there was gonna be some old warrant or something, but apparently not, as they let me leave the building without any problems.
When you paid for it what all did it include? Arrest? Charges? Disposition of cases? All of the above?
I first started getting arrested in 1993, and I think the last time was almost 2 years ago.
There’s been a few times where I was picked up but I’m not sure how it ended up playing out, and I know I’ve had my juvi record expunged, plus I know that I violated some “consent decree” which is essentially probation that you serve while your case is deferred, the idea being that if you finish they throw out the charge, but I got arrested again while I was serving that shit, but then my probation wasn’t extended and I never went back to court. I’m not sure how exactly that went under the rug, or if it even did actually.
It’s good to know WHAT the record is, particularly if you’re job hunting. A lot of times, there is some misdomeanor conviction and the court basically says, stay out of my face for a year and we’ll expunge the record. You ain’t bad, you’re just stupid. So you stay out of trouble for a year and assume the issue is stricken from the records. Bad idea. The courts are so over-worked that they never get around to removing the record, and it pops up for anyone doing a background check. Best to know your legal past.
I thought that was the case here, too. Also, there is something called deferred adjudication or disposition, which is a kind of probationary period during which you go crime free and then after that the offense is expunged from your record. That worked for me with a traffic ticket I contested. I’m not sure about more serious crimes, but I should think it would still be in play to some degree.
The whole nine. Arrests, Convictions, Dispositions, Civil Dispositions, Property Records, Known Landlords, Addresses, Phone Numbers, Aliases, more than you would believe.
DISCLAIMER: I bought a one-day membership and looked myself up for the Hell of it knowing I wouldn’t find much, and for aliases, unless there is a REAL separate name, it pretty much just includes the way your name has appeared in the phone book, on credit cards and that kind of shit.
For instance, the first thing that popped up was my first initial followed by my last name (the way the phone book had it once) and I’ve never went by that.
Just caught him in a bunch of bullshit. He claimed to have two kids with one woman and the correct answer was three with two, but one was in Kansas and they basically had nothing to do with one another so he figured she’d never find out. He bullshitted about owning two rental properties and his own house and the only thing even remotely in his name was an empty lot (I drove up) in a trailer park area that he shared the rights to with his parents.
He told her that he and his wife were divorced and that was not the case. He lied about his employment history, not because the check specifically said that he was not employed at a certain place, but that he was employed at two separate other places during the time he was supposed to have worked at the place he claimed.
He was arrested more times then he said, but benefit of the doubt is he just forgot. His driver’s license was also revoked for a second or third (Can’t remember) DUI in California, but he told her it was an unpaid speeding ticket that it wasn’t worth driving to California to pay because he could drive just fine and not get pulled over.