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Q:     If I successfully completed a pre trail diversion program should I tell my future employer before they do my background check?  I got arrested in 2012 for domestic violence (Florida) and got offered… Scroll down to read more!

Q:     If I successfully completed a pre trail diversion program should I tell my future employer before they do my background check?  I got arrested in 2012 for domestic violence (Florida) and got offered Pre Trail Diversion and I completed all my classes and changed my life. I never hit my girlfriend nor was it major at all. My background letter says at the bottom “Is there anything we should know in connection with the background check”?? Any help would be great. Thanks

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Answered I suspect that it doesn’t much matter where you were arrested, what you were arrested for, what the final disposition was or whether or not you sealed / expunged the record. This is 2014 and we are forehead deep into the internet age, where nothing is private, sacred or truly hidden from public scrutiny.

Sadly, sealing (and expunging) only applies to certain (not even to all) government agencies and has no effect whatsoever on private (er, extortionist) enterprise, who compile and maintain arrest information and then demand that you pay them off to remove your information from their database and public access. Worse still, after you “buy back your information”, then you can count on there being another private company lurking, somewhere, sometime, somehow, just waiting for you to pay them off as well. Its a seemingly never-ending vicious cycle.

For better or for worse you are probably best advised to take the wind out of the sails by admitting your past issues / indiscretions to your present (or potential) employer rather than waiting for them to find out on their own.

I’m sorry to have to give you this advise and wish you luck!

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