Have you been fingerprinted?

Have you ever been fingerprinted by some agency? What was the context? I'm talking all ten digits here, not just the thumb

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as a physician in California you have to be fingerprinted, all ten digits

I was fingerprinted to pass a security check before I could drive a school bus.

Yes, for my job. (I’m not a police officer or a lawyer, but I won’t get specific in that regard.)

yes, for my visa when i immigrated to the US

when I was a teenager, I was accused of breaking into a neighbor's house to steal some firearms and a jug of coins. Me and a couple buddies volunteered to go get fingerprinted at the small town police station; the cop brought me in and apologized.. I think they eventually fingered it on some tweakers up the road, but I wonder what became of those prints, and if they were ever digitized later

Yes, 35 years ago to work for UPS.

Yes, DCFS mandated reporter.

Yes, while being booked for a ticket warrant (that they then found out I was telling the truth about having paid, the little shithole suburb just hadn't cleared it).

Yes, since 2018 all lawyers in California have to be fingerprinted.

yes, for my visa when i immigrated to the US

This, most notably when applying for citizenship and I had to have my fingerprints taken three times because there was something wrong with them. In the end my prints were apparently unacceptable and instead I had to contact the police in every state I'd lived and have them send official notice that I'd never been in trouble.

Wow, I'm pretty sure I got fingerprinted in Elementary school by the local police (grew up in small suburb) as part of program creating an ID in case of abduction or injury. Started early!

"An ID Record"

wow, that sounds kinda creepy

Yes bc I need fingerprints + background check to volunteer at the camp i volunteer at every summer

Wow, I'm pretty sure I got fingerprinted in Elementary school by the local police

Multiple times for background checks and security clearances

As a child, I had it done when a local fire station visited my Tae Kwon Do studio and did it for all the parents who were interested.

I subsequently did it again when I had a background check to become a teacher and for immigration purposes

When I was hired as a banquet waiter in Natchez in 1985, I had to be fingerprinted to get a bartender's license since I would be serving alcohol, even though I did very little real bartending. By the time I became a real live bartender in 2020, Mississippi had long since dispensed with the need for printing or licensing. (Alabama still requires licensing for bartenders though.) I still have my 39-year-old license and it's good for a laugh now and then at work.

Virginia requires it for all local government jobs, I guess, not just sensitive positions.

yeah, when I changed departments at work, I inexplicably had to do this despite having been an employee of the company for 14 years at the time. they paid for it though. it was more an annoyance than anything.

I inexplicably had to do this

Fear of liability sneaks its way into almost every aspect of corporate life. My own rule of thumb is that within any company with multiple layers of management, the upper level officers exclusively manage money & liability; they have no contact with, or interest in, the people who do the work. That's the only explanation I can give.

arrested 4x, fingerprinted 2x

Like DJP, for security clearances and background checks for various entities. The last time was 2015 maybe when I needed a TWIC.

Only by my MacBook

for first real job post college, public sector position

Arrested twice, fingerprinted once

I got fingerprinted and put on the DNA database, this was after I had voluntarily walked into the cop shop after work because pigs kept turning up at my house. Long story short: years before I used to be a betting shop manager with a gambling addiction and had had a few "adventures", the little shit who was the son of the owner of the independent betting shop chain used to drink with cops and had agitated for my arrest. I told them to go fuck themselves a few times and then after they'd worn me a down I signed a caution for theft.

digging the criminal stuff, appalled by the orwellian regulatory shit

Three times; each because I had been hired by a Federal government contractor and needed to be approved for a low-level clearance.

yes, by myself, aged 10, following the instructions in my Usborne Young Detectives Handbook.

I can't remember if I was fingerprinted when I was arrested, but I have been scanned electronically for a job that required me to work with a large amount of cash.

When I visited India last year. Only the security officer couldn't get a proper set of fingerprints off me, and eventually just got bored trying and waved me through.

most recently: when I applied for permanent residency in Canada, but I have vague memories of having it done when I was younger, likely for US immigration reasons

once, by a cop. "you have such unique fingerprints!" she exclaimed.

doesn't everyone? that's the whole point

actually I have Ned's fingerprints

they were really hard to acquire.

As he held the match nearer, I saw that it was more than a stain. It was the well-marked print of a thumb.

"Look at that with your magnifying glass, Mr. Holmes."

"Yes, I am doing so."

"You are aware that no two thumb-marks are alike?"

"I have heard something of the kind."

imagine doing it all day, every day, in a las vegas strip mall

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i remember in elementary school we did a tour of the town police station and they fingerprinted us just to show us what it was like lol

man what an easy way to get everybody's fingerprints in the database at a young age!

"Hi, kids! I'm Officer B. Friendly and I'm going to give you a fun little taste of what your future life of crime will look like when it all goes to hell."

Wow, I'm pretty sure I got fingerprinted in Elementary school by the local police

Me too (Vermont, mid-to-late-eighties). Also was fingerprinted to work in public schools.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Monday, June 3, 2024 9:26 PM (yesterday)

Me too! In Kindergarten, 1985, living in Boston. I remember the reason given to my parents was so they could identify abducted kids (or maybe just identify their corpses after the fact, lol). I always wondered if my prints are still being stored somewhere. Law enforcement used to be so behind the times with regards to technology (from what I've read), I kind of doubt anyone ever took the time and money to digitize what they had 40 years ago.

Yep, elementary school in NY, mid-80s and likewise would be surprised if that was entered into a db still accessible today.

Will be applying for PR in Canada sometime in the next year so plan to be doing it again hooray!