What is the name of your state?Florida
I submitted to a level 2 background check for a job in which I will be working with what are considered "vulnerable population". The application asked about misdemeanor and felony convictions in the past ten years. I do not have any. What I did have was a 20 year old arrest for misdemeanor domestic battery that I pled NOT GUILTY and the charges were dismissed. Well I received a letter from the Department of Children and Families, as they are the agency here in Florida that is authorized to do Level 2 backgrounds, asking me to provide them with a copy of the arrest report and the court disposition. Florida Statues consider a guilty plea to a domestic battery as disqualifying regardless of court disposition. I pled NOT GUILTY, the charges we DISMISSED, thus I therefore do not have a disqualifying offense so can I send them the court disposition only? I really don't want to send the arrest report because it contains embarrassing personal information and it should not be not of the Department's business. The relevant point should be I pled NOT GUILTY , the charges were dismissed and I do not have a conviction.
I submitted to a level 2 background check for a job in which I will be working with what are considered "vulnerable population". The application asked about misdemeanor and felony convictions in the past ten years. I do not have any. What I did have was a 20 year old arrest for misdemeanor domestic battery that I pled NOT GUILTY and the charges were dismissed. Well I received a letter from the Department of Children and Families, as they are the agency here in Florida that is authorized to do Level 2 backgrounds, asking me to provide them with a copy of the arrest report and the court disposition. Florida Statues consider a guilty plea to a domestic battery as disqualifying regardless of court disposition. I pled NOT GUILTY, the charges we DISMISSED, thus I therefore do not have a disqualifying offense so can I send them the court disposition only? I really don't want to send the arrest report because it contains embarrassing personal information and it should not be not of the Department's business. The relevant point should be I pled NOT GUILTY , the charges were dismissed and I do not have a conviction.