Is there a lawyer in the house?

[Rob52240]

This is eating at me while I wait for paperwork to arrive in the mail.

So I'm looking for a new place to rent, and everyone does background checks anymore it seems.  Although I've only got 2 convictions on my record, both are over 10 years old, one is public intox, the other was being a park after dark.  The so called background checks label me a felon and claim I've been convicted of about a dozen other offenses.  They aren't confusing me with someone else, they're taking everything I've ever been charged with and saying I've been found guilty of all of them.  

I've never had trouble passing them before they became popular, when I worked for a fortune 50 company I had no problems passing, and when my clients at that job checked me out frequently (US Military, state prisons, pharmaceutical manufacturers, other large corporations, hospitals and universities) I've never had any problems with their background checks either.

When backgroundchecks.com checks me out, they manage to pull up about 3 pages of convictions that never happened including 2 felonies.

Any suggestions about what I can do to combat this?  I've already ruled out the 1500 mile trip to their location in Florida.  I'm wondering if I could lobby my state representative to stop illiterate morons from doing background checks in my state.

It wouldn't be a problem at all if I could just come up with all the necessary paperwork to refute the incorrect background check personally.  In order to prove them wrong I have to get them to admit they're wrong by sending the idiots doing the background check a bunch of paperwork that I have to request from the state.  The whole process takes about a month and is extremely irritating.
Meanwhile I'm being denied housing and was nearly denied employment but luckily they really wanted to hire me and waited 4 weeks for it to get straightened out.

[sunfan1121]

You can't do the time, don't do the crime!

J/K I have nothing to add.

[Rob52240]

I didn't do the crime, are you stupid?

I did file a complaint with the FTC, let's see if it goes anywhere.

[Slash27]

I didn't do the crime, are you stupid?

I did file a complaint with the FTC, let's see if it goes anywhere.

He said he was joking. Are you stupid?

[Rob52240]

Not usually but I am a bit sensitive about the subject right now. 

[Jayhawk]

Help me understand this, are you saying you have been charged with a dozen other crimes but not convicted of them (except the the two you mentioned)?

[katanaso]

Fill out the paperwork that needs to be completed.

I'm guessing you've been arrested multiple times, but only convicted twice, from how your phrased this sentence: "They aren't confusing me with someone else, they're taking everything I've ever been charged with and saying I've been found guilty of all of them."  

Perhaps you can request a NCIC check, as well as state check, from whatever company you're dealing with.  That's all the 3rd party company is doing.

Personally, I would be contacting that 3rd party company about them committing libel, if they are reporting you as convicted as a felon.  Talk to an attorney about that.

The fact is this:  your past is going to show up on background checks, but it depends what is reported to the State, as well as the Feds.

Good luck.

[Rob52240]

I can look it up myself, it gets inconvenient because I have to wait for paperwork to arrive in my hands, and then send it on to the out of state company doing the background check.  When I look myself up online at my state's court website every charge says Dismissed. 

Somehow dismissed means guilty to the people being paid to look it up.

[sunfan1121]

I can look it up myself, it gets inconvenient because I have to wait for paperwork to arrive in my hands, and then send it on to the out of state company doing the background check.  When I look myself up online at my state's court website every charge says Dismissed. 

Somehow dismissed means guilty to the people being paid to look it up.

If you're background check shows accurate information you can't sue to get in interpreted the way you want it too look. Well you can sue, it's the American way, but you won't get far. Look man if I saw a background check with a bunch of dismissed charges, and a few convictions, i wouldn't want that person anywhere near my investment. You're best bet would be to talk to the home owner and explain the situation.

[Rob52240]

The problem is that the background check is totally inaccurate.

If you're background check shows accurate information you can't sue to get in interpreted the way you want it too look. Well you can sue, it's the American way, but you won't get far. Look man if I saw a background check with a bunch of dismissed charges, and a few convictions, i wouldn't want that person anywhere near my investment. You're best bet would be to talk to the home owner and explain the situation.

So the cannabis avatar believes in guilty before and after proven innocent?

  

[Melvin]

I've seen this movie before.


Two thumbs down.

[Jayhawk]

So are the landlords informing you this is why you are being denied a contract?  Are you showing you the paperwork?  How are you finding this out?

[Rob52240]

I request the paperwork after I'm denied.

[guncrasher]

man you should've never told them you belong to the vtard squad.  j/k, to be honest, there's really nothing you can do.  supposedly i have a wife that lives in south carolina.  they mixed my record with that of my brother.  but since the credit report that gets sent to me doesnt include that information, well then I cant contest it.  except that it gets sent to whoever requests a copy of my credit report.  welcome to the world of computers.  my gf has 2 sisters even though she's the only girl in the family.  go figure.


semp

[zack1234]

Park after dark a offence in the US?

We have speed cameras in UK, It was 5.30 in the morning i got zapped doing 35 in a 30.
There was a stray dog and a electric milk van on the road

3 points on my license and £60 fine, it was 10 years ago.

Everytime i go past that camera my Mrs says slow down, even if i am doing 26