https://floridaactioncommittee.org/bill-seeks-allow-removal-mugshots-arrest-records/ Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws Wed, 07 Jun 2017 14:29:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://floridaactioncommittee.org/bill-seeks-allow-removal-mugshots-arrest-records/comment-page-1/#comment-6367 Wed, 07 Jun 2017 14:29:53 +0000 https://floridaactioncommittee.org/?p=6470#comment-6367 This would be helpful, I believe. Personally, I have been arrested 3-4 times prior to a sex offense and every time the charges were dropped, never even made it to trial. No deals, just nolle prosse. But, decades later and a few years after the sex offense, I’ve had companies like WalMart say they wouldn’t hire me because whoever did the background check for them, LexisNexis I believe, told them that I was convicted of every single charge I had ever been arrested for, so WalMart told me I couldn’t be hired because I lied on my application. They told me that I would have to dispute the information with the company that provided the background check. So I did. They argued with me. They told me over and over I had been convicted of those things and I had to prove that I hadn’t been. So I did. I showed WalMart once it was all over with and they said they still wouldn’t hire me. So to me this new law would help immensely, especially for situation like this. Sooo many people just assume that if you were arrested “you must have done SOMETHING”, and it just isn’t true.

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