Originally Posted by
rickair7777
To the OP...
Assuming that is your only criminal blackmark, and that it takes you 4 years of college and then three years of training/CFI before you apply to an airline it should not hurt you much even if the airline did find out about.
But keep your record clean from here on out...a trend or pattern is much worse than a isolated youthful incident.
citation35hf is probably correct regarding civilian employers, but keep in mind that if you ever apply for a military, intelligence, or law enforcement job they will want FULL disclosure. The DoD and especially the intelligence community have a reasonable chance of finding juvie crimes because of the way they do background checks.
Rick-
As a law enforcement officer if I run someone thru NCIC/IDACS any arrest that occurred when they were 18 years of age or older or if they were under 18 and the prosecuting attorney/district attorney had decided to charge them as an adult would show up. These under 18 year old arrest do not get put into the computer system.
Now, it is not to say that these documents do not exist in a file cabinet somewhere if I was arrested and charged as a minor. Nothing would keep whoever is doing a background investigation from contacting that court/prosecutor/etc and obtaining those files. It is just extremely difficult for them to locate the existence of them unless, of course, you disclose this to the person/employer asking.
Once again, I don't care if it’s the FBI, American Airlines, Secret Service, etc, if I had been arrested as a juvenile and charged on a juvenile, if asked if I had ever been arrested I would say... No. Just me though.
Last edited by citation35hf; 09-24-2011 at 03:19 PM.