Also, that entire point is irrelevant to your situation. What IS relevant is who conducted the background check.

When you come back and answer that and in what state this occurred, I’ll know better how to respond. By the way, I am an attorney and there are very strict Federal Laws which MAY apply depending on the answer to the above questions.
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You have the right to have errors in the information corrected by the previous employer and for that previous employer to re-send the corrected information to the prospective employer;

You have The right to have a rebuttal statement attached to the alleged erroneous information, if the previous employer and you cannot agree on the accuracy of the information.

You have the right to review previous employer-provided investigative information. You must submit a written request to the prospective employer, which may be done at any time, including when applying, or as late as 30 days after being employed or being notified of denial of employment. The prospective employer must provide this information to the applicant within five (5) business days of receiving the written request. If the prospective employer has not yet received the requested information from the previous employer(s), then the five-business days deadline will begin when the prospective employer receives the requested information. If you do not arrang to pick up or receive the requested records within thirty (30) days of the prospective employer making them available, the prospective employer may consider you to have waived your request to review the records.

Employees wishing to request correction of erroneous information in records received must send the request for the correction to the previous employer that provided the records to the prospective employer.
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Then you need to ask where you can make a report so the information will be on file. The ID Bureau where they take your prints can give the suspect information to the officer who takes your report.

You probably won’t be able to get a copy of the police report the same day but you do need to go back and get one as soon as it is available so you have one for your files (some times when an officer takes the report, they will walk it through so you have a copy ASAP).

Also get a copy of your credit report so you can see what kind of activity has been going on there. Better safe than sorry and if there is some kind of shady activity, ask the police what you need to do. There should be a detective assigned to the case if there is any kind of identity theft or fraud.

I would talk with a lawyer or the detective about your work keeping information from you. I don’t think they can legally do that but at least find out if you have a right to demand a copy for yourself and get a copy of the law to hand to the employer when you go back to prove your innocence. Don’t let them bully you.

Good luck to you
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25 yrs at PD

the courthouse will be closed tomorrow (but they don’t have the identifying info readily available) but the police/sheriff’s dept will be open (but i don’t know if the records department will be). you can use the info from the police/sheriff to prove it wasn’t your arrest, therefore it wasn’t your conviction.

also, take a copy of the police report (that you just filed) with you to the meeting with HR

another way to go around that (which is less likely to work though) is to contact a bond company or a private investigator and pay them to do a quickie background check (there are paid websites where you can get the criminal info, some bond companies will have access to a site like that because they have to check criminal records of all employees and sometimes will check the record of defendants to see if they are a good bond risk or not)

good luck!!!!!!!!
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