Originally Posted by
BrazilBusDriver
It’s almost certainly the arrests/dropped charges. Those never fully go away, even if expunged. Non-disclosure is considered at least evasive, if not out and out lying. And nowadays almost everything is linked so there’s usually no falling through the cracks.
Sorry you had to learn this the hard way. Worth doing some prep to address in addition to getting a copy of the background check report.
They only asked about convictions in the last 10 years and that was what I answered. However, someone else pointed out to me that at the end of these applications there is usually some kind of open ended question like “Is there anything else you’d like to tell us?”. I do recall seeing something like that and in hindsight that’s where I should have disclosed. I did not try to hide it, I knew the charges would show up if they went back far enough so no sense in trying to hide them. I didn’t use my judgement appropriately on what to do. I should have been fully forthcoming.