Wet Wreckless

[Humbla]

What is the name of your state? California

My EX has a Wet Wreckless Aug 2003 in Santa Cruz, Ca. She is a high school teacher, currently unemployed. She applied for employment 2005 and did not get her fingerprints cleared by the Dept. of Justice in Sacremento.

Questions:
1. Does a WW require her fingerprinting? Booking?
2. Would the WW prevent her from obtaining a teaching position?
3. How long will this WW stay on her record and possibily prevent her from teaching?

[CdwJava]

Originally Posted by Humbla

What is the name of your state? California

My EX has a Wet Wreckless Aug 2003 in Santa Cruz, Ca. She is a high school teacher, currently unemployed. She applied for employment 2005 and did not get her fingerprints cleared by the Dept. of Justice in Sacremento.

Questions:
1. Does a WW require her fingerprinting? Booking?
2. Would the WW prevent her from obtaining a teaching position?
3. How long will this WW stay on her record and possibily prevent her from teaching?

What exactly do you mean that her fingerprints were not "cleared"? What did the district say about it?

If she was convicted of CVC 23103.5 (sometimes referred to as a "wet reckless"), then she would likely have been fingerprinted (i.e. "booked"). These prints would have been sent to DOJ. As I understand it, this should not be a prohibiting criminal offense for teaching in CA. It is possible that the school district has a policy against it, or a policy against hiring anyone with recent misdemeanor convictions. She will have to ask the district about this.

This conviction will stay on her record until or unless a court removes it.

If she wants to see what is on her record and how to get things off, follow these two links:

To review her criminal offender record:

[url]http://caag.state.ca.us/fingerprints/security.htm[/url]

To clear her record:

[url]http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp/other/crimlawclean.htm[/url]

- Carl

[Humbla]

Her prints did not clear, i.e. She submitted her finger prints to the DOJ when she applied for employment (school teacher). The DOJ never sent the school district an OK (meaning she had been printed/booked and had a criminal record preventing her from teaching). I subpoenaed the DOJ (they will not release information to me) and subpoenaed the school district (received no valuable information). Basically the school district had to let her go after 2 months of trying to clear her prints to no success.

My understanding is school districts require DOJ checks to ensure safety of our children. Any printing would indicate a record and would prevent a teacher from being hired. Is this the process?

I'm asking the court for the records regarding this incident and hopefully I'll understand more.

Thanks.

[CdwJava]

Sometimes the process can take more than two months. It also depends on WHO submitted the prints and how. But the DOJ will ALWAYS provide a return - either Yay or Nay, they will not just leave it hanging. If there was a disqualifying conviction, then they would send a return to the district with that information.

Neither the DOJ or the school district are obligated to give YOU any information at all. SHE can contact the district about the records, and SHE can contact the DOJ (with the previously mentioned link for information) about checking her record. You have no legal standing in the matter on either end.

- Carl