When was the last time you were fingerprinted?

[Ptah]

Me, October 1, 1970.
Lackland AFB

[murielm99]

1. When I had a background check to

work as a substitute teacher. Maybe fifteen years ago?

[KT2000]

2. Federal employment 1973

Then, part of my job was fingerprinting people. Looks like they have a scanner to do it now.

[yellowdogintexas]

3. when I worked for the Census in 2020

In fact, that is the only time I have ever had fingerprints

[Lifeafter70]

4. January 2025

Required to volunteer at my grandson's school. Also had to get a TB test. $120.00

[rickyhall]

5. 2004 for a bag of vegetation

[JT45242]

6. This summer...standard background check

Have gotten finger printed for both jobs (teaching) and volunteering.

Just a standard part of working with youth (unless you own a beauty pageant)

[2naSalit]

7. The last time...

Fed employment background check 2016.

[multigraincracker]

8. In my 70s and can't remember ever being fingerprinted.

[Angleae]

9. A decade and a half after you, but the damn place.

[mwmisses4289]

10. A couple of years ago.

We do it every few years where I work.

[Mosby]

17. Why would you need to be fingerprinted every few years?

Prints today are digitized (or started as scans) and are added to databases like at the NCIC.

[mwmisses4289]

24. We do kids programs every summer.

My understanding is that my state requires anyone who will be around kids at all to be background checked and fingerprinted every few years.

[sarge1943]

11. April 1962

Enlisting in the Air Force

[IcyPeas]

12. When I became a Notary Public, 1998

[Emile]

13. 1951 Hand and foot prints on hospital birth certificate.

& April 7, 1969 enlistment in US Navy.

[catbyte]

14. About 5 years ago when I got my TSA Pre-check number.

But I can't remember if it was just my thinbprint or not. The last time I had my full fingerprints taken was in the mid-70s when I was interning at the County jail in college.

[Liberal In Texas]

35. Same here. For PreCheck. All fingers when I did it.

[sinkingfeeling]

16. 2022 I had mine Lice scanned by TSA. Now I have to get them taken again for the FBI so they can issue the

documents I need to reside in a foreign country.

[sakabatou]

18. Must've been in elementary school

Everyone student was printed. That's all I remember.

[ProfessorGAC]

19. January 2019

That was for the FBI background check for a substitute teaching license.
It was also done a month before for a different region of the state department of education.
Each region does their own, which seems a waste of money, but it's what they do.
I was amazed how fast the results come back.
The second one was done on a Tuesday & on Thursday they called to say the background check came back clean. (No surprise to me.)
The only time I got fingerprinted was for a similar vetting to take a temporary role as a consultant to the DoD (Army Corps of Engineers) & ATF for the decommissioning of an arsenal and elimination of obsolete inventory. (Mistly Vietnam era ordinance.

[True Dough]

20. I have never been fingerprinted

I don't even know if I have fingerprints. Or a reflection in the mirror. Or any gray matter between my ears!

[beaglelover]

21. Probably around 2006 for my securities license.

[Mad_Dem_X]

22. Elementary school. In the 70's sometime.

Don't remember much about it, except a police officer came to our class and fingerprinted everybody.

[LuckyCharms]

23. Late 80's, as part of getting a security clearance.

[soldierant]

25. I think around 2003

to get a state insurance license.

[BOSSHOG]

26. Spring 96

Pre deployment to Saudi. DNA Swab as well. Identification package.

[GP6971]

27. 2012 for a security clearance.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

28. Twice. First time in 1982 when I went to work

for Continental Airlines.

I could swear there was a second time but I'm not able to recall specifics right now.

[Jeebo]

29. I don't think I've ever been fingerprinted.

I'm sure I would remember if I ever have, even though, at age 75, it could have been a long time ago.

One thought: Most of the people who are responding to this thread are answering with times when they WERE fingerprinted. Almost nobody is responding that they have NEVER been fingerprinted. That might lead some to conclude that most people HAVE been fingerprinted at some time in their lives, but that conclusion would be suspect. That's because people who HAVE been fingerprinted probably are more likely to respond, than people who have NEVER been fingerprinted.

If you've never been fingerprinted, you probably won't post a response in this thread at all.

-- Ron

[Ptah]

32. Something else that surprised me,

not one response involved jail or arrest.

[Kali]

38. ...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1018&pid=2160612

[Ptah]

41. Oops!

[Enter stage left]

30. Applying for my "secret" security clearance...

With the 19th Special Forces in 1966.

[applegrove]

31. When I worked at a gift shop in the US Departure Lounge

at the Trudeau Airport in Montreal. I also had a virus scan. I loved that job. The internet was slower so I'd run two cashes at the same time when I was starting my shift at 6AM.

[LLC]

33. Just Once

For employment with USPS, late December 1980.

[Fla Dem]

34. I do not believe I ever was, although I feel as if I was at one time. My fingerprints are almost indiscernible now..

[Nittersing]

36. 1998 I think, for my employment with a school district. nt

[NNadir]

37. Our local police department offered finger printing for our kids...

...in case of an emergency. We all went, my wife and sons, we were all finger printed.

[Kali]

39. as far as I can remember, never.

I think we might have done it in school when studying about them but I am pretty sure they didn't go out of the classroom.

when my kids were in school they started requiring it of even parent volunteers. that really bothered me at the time as did the use of prints for ID in banks to cash a non-customer check. somehow I managed to avoid both. got away with not doing it at the school by just ignoring it and didn't really volunteer that much anyway as it was far away and I had a lot of other work going on.

[electric_blue68]

40. Very late 20's, or verly early 30's for a temp job.

[Nixie]

42. 2023 for TSA known traveler PreCheck

Should have gone with the Global service. That’s even quicker than the TSA known traveler. But it was about $80 more each, so we didn’t get it, but it would have been worth it.

[Skittles]

43. 2023 for IT work government contract

interviewed by the FBI too

did this for several accounts over the years

[Iggo]

44. Heheheh...I ain't tellin'.

[Ptah]

45. He looked at me and said,

"Kid, we don't like your kind, and we're gonna send your fingerprints off to Washington."

And friends, somewhere in Washington enshrined in some little folder, is a study in black and white of my fingerprints.

[CTyankee]

46. IIRC. last spring, some kind of pre-check prior to a trip to Europe.

[jmowreader]

47. When I applied for TSA PreCheck a few years ago