Have you ever been finger printed?

[Connonym]

I had to be finger printed when I got a job with the post office. I'm sure there's a big ol' file on my :Hi: Agent Mike!

[Aristus]

1. Yes. Part of the standard enlistment process for the military.

B-)

[Orsino]

48. ...and again for advanced security clearance. n/t

[NaturalHigh]

65. I think they also took three gallons of my blood...

after the fingerprinting.

[AllegroRondo]

2. yup, when I joined the military

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. In Kollyforniya, you get thumb-printed when you get your driver's license

That's why I never drive with my thumbs.

:crazy:

[Omphaloskepsis]

4. I got busted for shoplifting when I was 13. I got inked for that.

I also got fingerprinted when my mom shot my dad.. I was 10.

[BOSSHOG]

5. Pissed in a bottle on a random time frame as well

to detect drug use. Also the Navy has my DNA somewhere.

[rug]

6. Only for my 3rd and 4th arrests.

[Adsos Letter]

7. you betcha...US Army, 1972.

[seemunkee]

8. Needed clearance to work in a building with DoD contracts

I need to do it again so I can do some work for the IRS.

[Pendrench]

9. Yes - when we adopted our two children, we had to have a background check (including a check to see

if either of us had a criminal record).

Tim

[Deep13]

10. Ohio lawyers have prints on file at the Ohio Supreme Court.

[mainegreen]

11. Yup. Every kid in my elementary school got fingerprinted.

It was for our 'protection' in case we got kidnapped or something.

[ghostsofgiants]

17. Ditto.

[XemaSab]

96. word

n/t

[huskerlaw]

12. Yep.

A few times actually.

As part of a background check before I could work at a daycare, as part of the background check to apply for the Nebraska state bar, and a thumb print to get a California driver's license.

[Rhythm]

13. Had to submit prints for an FBI background check...

I took a job doing over-the-phone customer service for a HUGE bank, and due to the nature of the job, and the unfetted access to people's financial information that i had, they had to check me out pretty thoroughally.

[Common Sense Party]

14. Many times. You have to for NASD securities registration.

Who is Agent Mike?

[Connonym]

15. agent mike

is the imaginary FBI/CIA/DHS agent who reads all of our posts and keeps files on us

[BOSSHOG]

16. Imaginary?

[Connonym]

20. well, do we really know his name is Mike?

could be Bob

[Common Sense Party]

49. Nobody actually believes that, right? It's just an inside joke?

I mean, no one here is actually that paranoid, are they?

[krispos42]

70. No, of course not

<looks around>

No, of course not! Don't be silly! I have perfect faith that we're not being watched by the government.

<looks around again>

I found the actions taken by the German police against those disruptive anarchists to be both perfectly legal and entirely appropriate, don't you?

_{Remember, to insure the quality of your patriotism, this conversation may be monitored!!!}

My, I think President Bush cuts a particularly heroic figure in the summer sunlight, don't you!

[BOSSHOG]

72. I believe its fair to say

that sites such as DU are at least occasionally monitored and there are probably certain phrases or sentences which attract a great deal of attention. I believe DU admin has been contacted at least once concerning information about someone who posted something. Its not paranoia if they really are after you.

[Common Sense Party]

80. I just find it amazing to think that a government as incompetent

as ours would be dedicating any significant time or manpower to monitor a message board on the internets. Our so-called intelligence services can't even effectively monitor foreign threats from bona fide terrorist groups. I don't think they care that much about some guy from Poughkeepsie, sitting in his underwear in front of his computer screen, railing against Scooter Libby.

I could be wrong.

But then, so could the paranoids.

[BOSSHOG]

82. I agree with you teammate

but I think the scenario exists. I sincerely believe that if any of us posts a threat to an elected official on DU, the site would garner attention. It is such a shame that the legitimate means for handling those who have lied to us and misled us and betrayed us have failed. I offer no suggestion that we should take matters into our own hands, only that if it were suggested here we would find ourselves in a crowd and rightfully so. I have no doubt that the bush administration is reading this post and all of those on DU and other sites.

[NoPasaran]

88. Considering that

Earlier today I read a post speculating that the sinking of the Titanic might have been a false flag black bag job, I'd say there is an infinite supply of paranoia on DU.

[sarge43]

73. "Who is Agent Mike?"

The phantom Secret Service agent who supposedly monitors DU, making note of our rude insights about Smirky the Wonderchimp. It's a nasty, thankless job and we always say hi so he doesn't feel too lonely and out of it.

:hi: Mikey

[querelle]

18. Yes

It was a mandatory part of getting the security clearance for my job. Finger printing, background checks, credit checks, talking to my neighbors, etc.

Q

[Roon]

19. I was arrested for smoking a joint on the beach in Texas

They didn't finger print me...and when I smiled for the mugshot, they decided not to take my picture.

I know smoking in public in Texas isn't the smartest thing in the world to do. I was drunk too.

[pagerbear]

21. When I applied for a real estate license in Florida in 1986.

I got thumb-printed when I tried to cash a check from my mother--at her very branch!

[AggieGal]

22. Yes, for Airport AOA acess.

I do not see why some people have a problem with getting fingerprinted. If you have nothing to hide, it should be no big deal. Like taking a drug test.

[Kali]

29. aaarrrgggghhhhh!!!!!!!

If you have nothing to hide you won't mind these security cameras in your house will you? You won't mind being searched every time you cross a county line or asked for identification while you are just walking down the street, right? Govt. gps unit in your car? How about a rfd chip under your skin? It would just be so handy for shopping, wouldn't it?

It's not about doing anything wrong, it's about WHO decides what is right and wrong.

[AggieGal]

53. Tracked Everywhere Anyway

Cameras - It is what it is. I figure I am on some sort of camera whenever I am out in public. Since I am a nobody so they are security cameras.

ID presentation - I go through airport security so often and set off the metal detector - I refer to it as getting felt up. It could be better if they let the cute guy do the pat down. So far no dice on that one. Showing ID is no big deal.

GPS in the car - What is OnStar? That is the only feature we played with during our free trial period. Kinda of a "Where am I now?" game.

RFD chip - No way. I like my Debit card just fine. I also do not like the speed pass key fob thing. I lose my keys to often. I even had to pay to have my car rekeyed once.

[Connonym]

45. I consider it to be an invasion of privacy

I've had my fingers printed and I also have had to take drug tests and for my very first job a lie-detector test. I did it because I had to but that didn't mean I had to like it. In fact, it makes me resentful.

Mind you, I think there are some jobs that it's definitely a good idea to run a criminal background and test for drugs (the lie detector? not so much). I'd like to see George Fucking Bush take a pee test and then a lie detector test. I think given the fact that he's "running" the country he needs to be way more accountable than the warehouse guy at Walmart.

[Book Lover]

68. Then why use a pseudonym here at DU if you have nothing to hide?

Unless I missed your sarcasm tag...

[XemaSab]

97. No fingerprinting for AOA here...

We had to complete a checklist which included such crimes as murder, treason, sedition, and smoking in airplane lavatories though. :crazy:

[Lex]

23. To take the NC bar examination

we had to be fingerprinted, nationwide background check for civil and criminal cases, and a bunch of other junk.

[sniffa]

24. amazingLy, no

no mug shots either. i can't expLain it either.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

25. Sort of...When I cash a check at a bank where I don't have an account,

they make me put my thumbprint on the check.

It's kind of humiliating.

[datasuspect]

32. i always "roll" my thumb in the ink

and roll it on the check like they do when you get booked.

without fail, the clerk will say something like "looks like you know what you're doing" or "you've done this before."

[GoddessOfGuinness]

33. I just do that because I don't want to smudge the print...

But I've never been booked for anything. It's good to know that I'll know how to do it when Dumbyass makes being a Democrat illegal. :hi:

[GRLMGC]

26. Yeah

I had to be for my green card.

[Richard Steele]

27. Would you believe, "no"?

[Inchworm]

28. Pleading the 5th

[Wapsie B]

30. Yes, to work in a nursing home of all places.

:eyes:

I had worked in several after that and never was finger-printed. I might've also been when I tried my hand at insurance sales. Can't remember though.

[Kali]

31. No. And I refuse to believe that one should be fingerprinted to

volunteer at YOUR OWN child's school as well. Sure some security clearance issues I could buy into, but for everyday citizens I find it highly intrusive and offensive.

I think the only time I have ever done it was middle school biology or something like that. I refuse.

[Gormy Cuss]

41. In California, you must leave your thumb print when you buy property.

If I had been buying alone I would have walked away from the table, but I couldn't do that to the SO.
Everyone in the state has to leave a thumb print because of a relatively small scale problem with fraud. It's one of those "let's place the burden on law abiding people because it's easier than catching the crooks" laws that annoy me to no end.

[Kali]

44. OMG

You are making a major purchase and presumably someone is making a profit on what YOU are providing (not to mention obvious taxes and fees to the govt.) and they want to treat you like a criminal!

That is insane. And it isn't just putting the burden of catching crooks on citizens it is building those databases that could be used for all kinds of dirty actions by people you have less and less control over.

[Gormy Cuss]

47. California has an amazing number of privacy invading, data mining friendly laws.

I don't get it, but it seems to be off the radar of many people. This week in my local paper there was a page one story about divorce lawyers using FasTrak records against the clients' STBE. For example, one lawyer used frequency and timing of trips to refute the ex's claim of working at home most days and therefore able to assume primary child custody. There is apparently no law to prevent that use of the data.

[Connonym]

55. Unreal

I remember laughing at one of my friends for refusing to buy a tollway pass because he was afraid that they would track the vehicles. Funny how that no longer seems far fetched.

[hedgehog]

76. The reason for that is to ensure that you aren't on record anywhere as a pedophile.

We went through the same thing to be certified to work in any program with kids at our Catholic parish. It sounds overboard, I know, but the diocese did have an incident before the fingerprinting when a pedophile volunteered at one parish and was turned down. He just drove up the road to the next parish!

[montanto]

34. many times for one reason or another!

[SPKrazy]

35. Yes

my license to work in my field requires a full criminal background check and fingerprinting.

:shrug:

[Withywindle]

36. Yes, at customs going into Brazil three years ago.

They only started doing it when "Homeland Security" here started doing it to them. It's only fair, really. But if I ever commit a crime in Brazil, I'm screwn!! (Here I should still be OK.)

[Danger Mouse]

37. yes, in order to work at the place i am now, i was fingerprinted...

to make sure i didn't have a history of child abuse.
then i was finger printed again in order to get TA certification...we're still waiting for that to go through, though >_<

[momophile]

38. standard for Peace Corps entrance too nt

[pokerfan]

39. Yes, when I applied for a concealed carry permit

[MissMillie]

40. I used to work for the department of corrections

so yeah, I had to be fingerprinted for my job

[Jed Dilligan]

42. Four times

California Driver's License, Working with kids, and two arrests.

[hyphenate]

43. Only my thumbprint

in the state of confusion--er, California, where you are thumbprinted to get your driver's license.

[JoePhilly]

46. Finger faxed ... never finger printed.

But I do know that if you fax some one the finger, they'll get mad.

[Ariana Celeste]

50. both times i got arrested

other then that i cant remember

[billyoc]

51. Today? n/t

[wavesofeuphoria]

52. In many (most) states, teachers are required to be fingerprinted.

[Goblinmonger]

64. Yep

I had to in Wisconsin. Twice. Once for the state records and once for an FBI check. Now the man has my prints.

[achtung_circus]

54. Many times

my Dad was a cop and I sometimes I'd get printed a couple of times a month.

[BarenakedLady]

56. I believe so...

:shrug:

[yewberry]

57. Yep. I work in a public school.

It's a requirement in this state, along with background checks.

[Kajsa]

58. Yep, it's required for anyone

teaching in public schools.

[legally blonde]

59. yep - it's required for lawyers

seeking admission into the Missouri Bar Association. I had mine taken the old fashion way. Now they scan your hands on a computer.

[SPKrazy]

61. mine were the old fashioned way too

had a cop do it, he kept saying "relax your hand"

:shrug:


oh, it was for my professional license, not "book em Danno"

:hi:

[SeattleGirl]

60. Twice. Once for a job, and once when I signed up to be a tutor

to elementary school kids.

[reyd reid reed]

62. Yeah...

for my driver's license, when I had a passport (I think), and when I did licensed day care.

For day care, they did a honest-to-god background check, so I *know* there's a big ol' nasty file somewhere with my name on it.

:hi:

[Lethe]

63. fingerprinted when i got a DWI

hey, shit happens right?

the judge who sentenced me had recently been arrested for DWI too, LOL

[LostInAnomie]

66. Yep - Criminal mischief when I was 18

It sucked, but I could have been busted for far worse at the time. In a way I lucked out.

[TZ]

67. Yes as part of being a dance teacher in my county...

the "potential for contact with kids" sort of thing.

[Awsi Dooger]

69. Yes, when I got my Sheriff's Card

That's required to work in a Nevada casino.

I worked as a sportsbook supervisor at the Horseshoe many years ago.

[REP]

71. Twice

Once, after my apartment was broken into and my prints were taken to exclude them from the lifts. The second time, only my thumbprint, to get my California driver's license.

[LibertyLover]

74. Yes, several times

The first time was when I worked for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Then a few years ago, my husband and I adopted our daughter. Part of the dossier we had to send to China were clearances from our city police and also the DHS (Department of Homeland Security). Both of those involved fingerprinting.

[malta blue]

75. YUP

I got arrested for underage drinking and fake ID when I was a 16 year old freshman at Carleton College in Minnesota. They did not take too kindly to the "slick girl" from NYC and made me go through hell.

The judge laughed and gave me a $50 fine.

[hedgehog]

77. I had to be fingerprinted for a security clearance years ago.

It turned out that I have hardly any fingerprints because the ridges are so shallow. I must have missed my calling as a safe cracker!

[NewWaveChick1981]

78. Yes, for the job I had last year.

I worked for a bank as a student loan lender representative, and they had all kinds of security precautions, including fingerprinting. I had to undergo a background check, and the fingerprints are now in the FBI database. Guess I should keep my nose clean now. :P

[bikebloke]

79. Working in a bank

And I had nothing to do with cash, nor access to accounts. Just paper shuffling and carrying the load for relatives and their drinking cronies who didn't have to do anything but collect free pay checks. That's why customers are nickeled and dimed to death with extra charges at Bank of Amerika.

[freethought]

81. Yes. Required before entering the employ of NPS.

National Park Service that is.

[AndreaCG]

83. Several times for my job

In a courthouse. Can't have the inmates running the asylum, so to speak.

[Flaxbee]

84. twice: arrested in the San Diego airport

(oopsie, didn't know pepper spray required a permit) and to be admitted to the California Bar. The New York Bar does not require fingerprints (at least it didn't in '99).

[Generic Brad]

85. By my employer

Apparently I have very shifty eyes.

Actually, everyone where I work is required to be fingerprinted and go through a criminal background test.

[treestar]

86. To be admitted to the bar

Agent Mike has had my prints since 1984.

[AandP]

87. Yes

.......many times....Military, weapons ownership, small infractions.

[AngryOldDem]

89. Yep -- as part of a background check....

...when I volunteered to coach a kids' academic challenge team. Had to go to the sheriff's office, and damn if it didn't feel like I was being booked for something when they did it.

[michreject]

90. Yes.

When I got my concealed carry permit.

[Rosemary2205]

91. Twice

once when I was arrested and once when GA required it for a driver's license.

[Decruiter]

92. Twice for SEC clearance to be a broker

No mug shot, never arrested.

[Blue_In_AK]

93. I worked for Department of Corrections for a year.

[sakabatou]

94. Missing kid thing back in the 2nd grade

:S

[XemaSab]

95. All the kids at my school got finger printed

gd Oakland Police... :grr: