Can you find out if your fingerprints are linked to a crime?

Question

I have a friend friend that was arrested and used someone else's name, address, DOB, etc. She then violated probation after she served her time. That was 5 years ago, and now she is afraid to apply for a job that requires fingerprinting, because the arrest will come up and connect her true self to the past crime under someone else's name. She is willing to complete the terms of her probation to make it go away, but doesn't want to mix the identities of the two people. So is there anyway to "run your fingerprints" without incriminating yourself?

Answer 1

Fingerprints are individual.  No two

people have same ones.  Your

fingerprints will identify you, your

friend.

It's best to take care of the

probation problem, and start

with nothing to hide.  It'll free

you, and make you happier.

Answer 2

Well, fingerprints can accurately identify an individual if the sets of fingerprints are compared. I do not really know what your friend is applying for. If it is an ordinary desk job at a government facility with no sensitive information to be processed (I am assuming it is governmental since they do fingerprints and she is worried about it being processed by the feds) chances are they will not bother doing a check with the FBI database. If she is applying for a job working with children, chances are that they will do a fingerprint check. Now I might be wrong, but I do not think that comparing fingerprints quite work like in CSI where their laptops comes up with a match within 2 seconds. I think it takes a lot of resources and maybe even some human supervision in the end. So your friend might hope they don't bother running the prints. Still, I am not going to ruin her life by giving bad advice so doublecheck on that before she takes a calculated risk. If you are asking if it is possible to fake the prints, I guess it could be done like in this page: http://www.ccc.de/biometrie/fingerabdruc... however that seems like a pretty dumb thing to try. Anyhow, I guess admitting to having used an alias will open up a whole new world of problems, so maybe it is just best to get a job that does not require fingerprinting.

Answer 3

Don't worry. If they are, we will certainly be over to talk to you about it!

Answer 4

So just don't apply for a job that requires fingerprinting, big deal, there are plenty of jobs out there that don't require this.