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Originally Posted by Senusret I
Each NPHC sorority has a memorandum of understanding with national and state law enforcement agencies which allows them to run your social security number (or sometimes just full name) through a database. This gives the sorority access to your police records. They WILL find out. Three out of the four immediately disqualify applicants for such offenses, and the fourth has pending legislation on the matter.
Good luck, though.
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I am responding to the general question of running background checks on people. It is part of my job to deal with people who have had "background checks" based on name, social security numbers, etc.
Let me say this about validity.
Each state is different in what arrest records are released. In the State of Georgia, the only way to do a complete background check is when fingerprints are submitted. The requester can only get felony CONVICTION data without the person's consent. There is a specific form required to get the Georgia criminal history from a law enforcement agency. It does not include traffic and other non-fingerprintable arrest charges. Georgia does have a couple of programs where the arrest record is sealed but that doesn't apply to court records. Georgia doesn't have a rule an arrest charge will disappear automatically after X amount of time.
Just because a company like ChoicePoint, Lexis, CriminalHistoriesRUs, provide a criminal history doesn't mean that it is accurate. There are lots of people with similar names. Heck one time someone called because their last name and YEAR of birth were the same as the offender's.
Also, keep in mind that "3rd party vendor's" own employment application contains a statement that they are not responsible for errors!! What!! They are the ones collecting the info!!.