<p>Last night I got picked up for being out past curfew (10:00 where I live). They handcuffed me and put me in the back (probably for dramatic effect) and took me home to my parents. They said I will be able to take a diversion course, and it won't go on my record. Other than this my record is squeaky clean. </p>
<p>I have perfect grades (will be valedictorian) and want to apply to ivy/stanford. Is there anyway that the colleges will be able to find out about this, and if so, is it a big deal since it was only a (local) curfew violation? Some college applications (like Duke) ask if you have ever been arrested, does this count and would I have to disclose it? Am I worrying about nothing, or is there something to be worried about?</p>
<p>Haha wow… I’ve never actually heard of someone being picked up for being out past curfew… But if it doesn’t go on your record, it doesn’t exist, and no 'body got to find out. capiche?</p>
<p>Our town has a curfew also. They absolutely do enforce it - always- and they will pull you over if you even look under 18 after 11:00! </p>
<p>And we are in a very populated, upper middle class, very low crime area in Northern California. It does seem like a very Nazi Germany way of doing things. The police decided on the curfew, not the town, not the voters, not the parents. There does not seem to be any reason for it either other than to pull kids over.</p>
<p>I totally oppose it - and I am a parent! Not everyone out after 11:00 is “up to no good”. Movies get out after 11:00! So the curfews do exist I assure you - and are enforced, even without the time machine LOL</p>
<p>I would just ignore it -it is stupid anyway that they have the curfew IMHO, and it is not like you committed a crime! Did they read you your rights? Take you to a police station? If not, I would not consider it an “official” arrest! So, unless they did - you should be able to truthfully answer “no” on the applications.</p>
<p>You were not arrested. Putting you in handcuffs is different from arresting you – they would have had to read you your rights, take you to the station and book you. You were simply taken home in a fashion designed to maximize your fear.</p>
<p>If they said it won’t go on your record, forget about it. Even if it did, the top colleges will not care that you got picked up for being out past 10 (which is a RIDICULOUS curfew by the way, even for under-18s).</p>
<p>My old town - a small suburban town near Atlanta – had a midnight curfew for those under 18. They were thusly not allowed in movies that started after around 10:00 pm. They could be picked up for being out, but were unlikely to do so. I don’t believe New York City has a curfew, because the police have better things to do than chase down 17 year olds out at 11:15 after soccer practice or something.</p>
<p>If you weren’t arrested (and you weren’t, since they didn’t charge you), then you don’t need to say anything.</p>
<p>Also, even if you did put it down, explain the circumstance—the majority of top colleges would think the curfew is ridiculous in the first place, let alone unconstitutional.</p>
<p>I was at a party that everyone (including me) had to run away from because the cops had showed up to break it up. However, when they found me I was more than a mile away, and walking normally, and was quite polite when they stopped me. They thought I was sketchy because I had dry blood on my wrist (had fallen earlier), and since I talk very funny (normally), they thought I was high. I also fit the description of someone at the party who had been selling drugs, which is probably why I got stopped in the first place. Anyways, I was a little bit high, and though I didn’t get cited for anything other than curfew, they might have put in their report that I was “suspected of being under the influence”. </p>
<p>I live in San Diego, Cali. They did “read” me my rights. Still, I think that might have also been for dramatic effect because they were laughing when they did it. They wrote me up for being out past curfew, so that might be on my record right now, but after I take the class they offer, it will be for sure taken off. </p>
<p>Yes, but i won’t have to go, because of the diversion course. And as far as it is concerned “officially” there were no drugs involved because they did not cite me for anything drug related.</p>
<p>what? that’s ridiculous you can’t be out past 10? I mean idk but imo I think you should just forget it and never look back. A curfew violation doesn’t even qualify as a misdemeanor 3 in the juvenille system.</p>
<p>I know a town nearby that has a curfew and has had it for quite some time. It’s being challenged in court now and it might get overturned. There has to be a reason related to a compelling public interest for a curfew.</p>
<p>Homeschoolers and those going to private schools with different schedules than what public schools use have had to deal with these sorts of things for a long time.</p>