DNA reminded me of fingerprints

[Escher]

I've been fingerprinted twice for jobs I've held.

I'm no longer at those jobs.

So, who gets those fingerprints, and are they in a national database now, or are they just checked against the DB and discarded/filed with employer?

anyone know?

[funnybone]

Good question. I don't know if an employer, unless government, has the authority to do as they wish with the prints. What types of jobs were these that they needed prints? The only time I was fingerprinted was for a DL in GA (just one finger) and when we got our green cards (all 10 fingers).

[Gilgamesh37]

I've been printed when my then DH was getting his green card (so that set is in the INS national database) and again when I took the bar exam, so that set is in the state bar association database which I presume could be searched by a law enforcement organization if they had probable cause to believe some sufficiently serious crime had been committed by a lawyer licensed in X state......

I figure if you've been printed, you're in a database somewhere.

[Escher]

In college I moonlit as a security guard :rolleyes:
And then later on I worked in a financial office.

And you say to get a driver's license in GA you need to be fingerprinted? That's terrible.

I'm still wondering where those records were sent and if they are still "on file" somewhere. The cynical side of me says probably, but I just don't know the process... perhaps like DNA they are only checked against the DB, not added to it.

[tamawrite]

Interesting question. Teachers (and in some states, anyone who has contact with schoolchildren) are fingerprinted. That's how they got mine...I wonder if they still have them.

[Escher]

I'm sure the physical prints are stored with my old employer in my HR file.... I don't care about that so much... but they definitely were submitted to (FBI) for cross reference with the national DB.

At that time, does the FBI "collect" you? CSI fans, what's the name of the Fingerprint database?

[Escher]

Ah, relief from the State of Maryland (or is it commonwealth?)

I just got fingerprinted for a job I worked at six months ago,
why do I have to do it all over again for this job?

Contrary to what the "conspiracy theory" people think, the government does not keep a file of everyone's fingerprints!
Only the fingerprints of people who have been arrested, or are working in highly sensitive government
positions, are on file in the FBI and the State computers.

That being the case, when you are fingerprinted for a Background Check, the fingerprint card is destroyed after the
check is made. The law does not allow those fingerprints to be stored, and therefore if you apply for a new job,
you must be fingerprinted and the background check done all over again.

[LakeMartinGal]

I'm sure the physical prints are stored with my old employer in my HR file.... I don't care about that so much... but they definitely were submitted to (FBI) for cross reference with the national DB.

At that time, does the FBI "collect" you? CSI fans, what's the name of the Fingerprint database?
AFIS, I think...

[badunnin]

I worked for the U.S. DoD - I'm assuming I'm still on file someplace, and always will be....

[funnybone]

And you say to get a driver's license in GA you need to be fingerprinted? That's terrible.


That was in 1998, so I am assuming it's still the case. Like I said, it was only one finger, but they obviously wanted it for some reason.

[faygs]

That was in 1998, so I am assuming it's still the case. Like I said, it was only one finger, but they obviously wanted it for some reason.

Maybe so that no one else can try to get a driver's license with your name. I'm pretty sure that when I got my license I also had to get printed.

[mbrogier]

Thanks to the Adam Walsh case, my parents fingerprinted me during the huge crackdown on child abuctions. I'm betting they didn't burn my fingerprint file when I turned 18. ;) The manpower and expense to burn all those files would be greater than just letting them sit there. Besides, they'd have a great database for catching people who commited crimes. They got my fingerprints legally.

I'm a cynic when it comes to the government.