Getting fingerprinted for work - will I be in the FBI database?

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I just landed a really good job with probably the largest financial institution in the country - I am a contractor and I was just told that I will have to be fingerprinted and get a background check.

No big deal on the BG check - but fingerprinted? I understand WHY - I am working in network security and biometrics (and OMG, you do not want a fingerprint scanner on a handgun! - some people cannot be read at all and have to get special "keys")

Anyway - if they run my prints, does that add me to the big fingerprint database?

Not that I got anything to hide, but it just gives me the creeps.
 
I'm not an expert, but IIRC, you WILL be added to the database....After all, who do you think your employer sends the fingerprints to for the background check? Either the Feds or your State Police.

Mine were added years ago while being processed for a LEO position.



Anybody else know better?
 
Yep!
Might as well join the rest of us in Big Brother and The Holding Co.

Conceal Carry, LEO, Fed Jobs,...etc.
Bring your own Go-Jo [tm], probably won't be any decent soap to clean with afterwards...
 
Don't really know,

but I'll bloviate to bump this one, in hopes someone will inform me. I had a security clearance, AND was arrested , so I know mine are in the Byrd Bunker in W. Va. As for you; as I said above, I really don't know how they do things in your business, but I would imagine that having one's prints taken just about insures that said prints get sent to, and archived by, the Feds. After all, how can they compare your prints to those of someone pretending to be you if they don't have an image of yours to compare to the other fella's prints? Let's not hear any of that anarchic libertarian nonsense about comparing prints only when needed, on the spot, and not sending images to a central registry! (Snork!)
 
Yep, your prints are going into "the system". A bunch of databases and linked computers that store fingerprint info. Look at the print card to see if they mark it for FBI submission. If so you'll go in the FBI system if not probably into your state's system. However, your state likely links to the FBI anyway so even if they are kept by the state they will be accessible to anyone with access to the system.

Depending on where you go and who does the printing follow the advice above about bringing good hand cleaner, that ink is not fun to get off.:(

Welcome to the system.:scrutiny:
 
Now that I think about it, be prepared for a digi-scanner. I've been printed twice since June, by 2 different state gov. agencies. One still uses ink, the other a digi-scanner. But it IS important to keep your fingers clean; either way. Unless you plan on being there awhile.......:rolleyes:
 
when i was ~12, i had a Libertarian moment,
and decided not to finish the Boyscout's Fingerprinting Merit Badge.
 
I went into the system at 10 or 11 years of age. Had to get a Military ID as a dependent. I remember getting printed. Also did it again 28 years later with my CWP.
 
I have been in "the system" since 1983 and I didn't experience any delays in my NICS checks when it was just VA doing it. Now that whomever else is involved, it regularly takes 20-30 minutes. One of my friends always takes 2-3 hours, so he just plans for it.:(

I'll be getting printed again soon, so I'll have to see if they use the digital scanner or not. That would be better than messing with that ink.:(
 
Don't know about everyone TallPine, but I am former military and current gov. contractor..

My last 3 NICS purchases were delayed... :cuss: :fire:

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I was fingerprinted when I obtained my Series 3 Commodity License. Was Finger printed again when I changed clearing companies. Was printed a third time when I obtained my TX CHL.

Welcome to the club.

Smoke
 
No big deal on the BG check - but fingerprinted? I understand WHY - I am working in network security and biometrics

I believe it is an OCC (Office of Comptroller of Currency) regulation that anyone working for a financial institution gets fingerprited. I worked at a credit card bank for over 2 years before the OCC auditors came through and made sure everyone was printed.
 
Been printed and checked probably 8 times, each employer (all financial institutions, and 1 insurance co) most recently for CCW and for my current job with the state of DE.

The reason they are printing you is so that you can be bonded, on a corporate bond. All banks do this for employees if you are not bondable you cannot work there. Its in case you decide to steal, you have to be bondable or the insrance co will not pay.

There may also be federal regs that require a background check depending on the type of institution it is.

My NICS always go through right away. The delay has more to do with your name the more common it is the more likely a delay, for example guys named John Smith, will take extra time because there are so many of them who have committed a crime.
If your name is similar to a crimminals name you will be delayed.
Providing your SS number is supposed to speed things up.
 
I believe it is an OCC (Office of Comptroller of Currency) regulation that anyone working for a financial institution gets fingerprited
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hmmm.....

I've worked for a financial Institution governed by the OCC for 7 years and this is the first I've ever heard. Probably depends more on your area of employment for said institution.

Smoke.

...and I have never had my background check delayed.:neener:
 
The US gov't has so many copies of my fingerprints, it's a wonder they don't charge me for storage. Does it really matter if they do or do not have your fingerprints in the "system"?
 
I haven't a clue as to what sort of "system" there was in 1955, but I was, having had an AEC "Q" clearance issued in that year, most definately in it.

It might be interesting, given all that has developed since then, what about before then, for someone to estimate how many sets or prints The Fanbelt Inspectors might actually have in their files. What's the population of the country these days, and by the bye, how does one spell police state??

Just keep the following in mind. In a police state, one might not hear, on any regular basis, Papers Please.
 
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My NICS always go through right away. The delay has more to do with your name the more common it is the more likely a delay, for example guys named John Smith, will take extra time because there are so many of them who have committed a crime.
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Mine always get approved immediately also. And I never provide an SSN. Never been finger printed, except for one or two digits for CO DL.

I guess there just aren't many other people out there named Tall Pine :neener:
 
Smoke
I've worked for a financial Institution governed by the OCC for 7 years and this is the first I've ever heard. Probably depends more on your area of employment for said institution.

Could be, I'm really not sure. I'm in IT and they fingerprinted everyone here as far as I know.
 
Well, I wouldn't mind being identified as an official US Citizen,

if that still meant anything these days. Anybody every look at the words in the front of a US Passport? I think it says things like "look out for this person, if you hurt him we'll send Marines to hurt YOU!" (I'm reading between the lines, here, snork!)

Unfortunately, being a US citizen these days seems more and more like being a Soviet citizen was in the bad old days; The State won't help you, but it reserves a special right to mess with you.
 
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