<p>Included with my appointment was the police record check form, and it has me confused. Do I bring it to all the places listed: school, city police, county police, etc. or just the police? Thanks for the help</p>
<p>We were also confused about the jurisdictions mentioned on that form. Take the form to the police if you live in a city.</p>
<p>You should present the form to your local municipality as well as any other jurisdictions where you have had law enforcement contact.</p>
<p>Take it to the primary jurisdiction where you live. They will do a local records check. And remember, stay out of trouble, any trouble. Locally we had a service academy apointee who when to rescue a friend who had been drinking at a party (underage). He showed up just before the local law enforcement personnel to collect his friend, when the police came, he DID NOT run like everyone else and so they hauled his butt in even after he told them why he was there (they didn't believe him as what teenager under those circumstances would tell the truth). He tested negative for alcohol and still had to have legal representation help get him out of the jam as they were still going to tack something onto his record. Meanwhile, all those that ran did not get into trouble. Incidents similar to this happen quite frequently.</p>
<p>We were as confused as you were about all this police record stuff.</p>
<p>Our daughter is a minor...and will be until Nov....It took 6 phone calls all around the county before we got to the point that since she is a minor we had to go down to San Diego Juvenile Court and get a statement saying she has no record with Juvenile Authorities....and not to go to our local Sheriff's Station.</p>
<p>While we were down there, they told us to go next door to Traffic and Probation. At Traffic, they handed us a printed form that said " All fines have been paid on this account." "Hey, wait a minute!", I responded to the lady.
"She has NO fines! It sounds like she did." "That's the only form we ever print" our dear county-employee said. We opted NOT to submit that to USNA, figuring leaving well-enough alone is better than giving them confusing information. When we went to Probation for a form they told us that since we didn't bring our daughter with us, they wouldn't give us any paperwork. SHE had to be present with us. When I mentioned that she was a minor child, they didn't care, without her, we got nothing from them.</p>
<p>Bottom line, we only sent the Juvenile Court form back and have heard nothing from USNA telling us that wasn't enough.</p>
<p>So if you parents out there with minor children before I-Day have any other experiences, let us know. But at this point we are assuming USNA is happy with what we sent in.</p>
<p>I ended up at the county courthouse. They printed out their own form and would not even look at the USNA form... It was just a local check, not even statewide. Our local police dept. doesn't do any background checks at all. I was able to get the paper without my son present and he is 18. Go figure...
No news is good news...we'll hope...</p>
<p>Our local police station told us to go to the courthouse (criminal division) -- they would cover the whole county, not just the city. And the courthouse had their own form, but they stapled the one from the USNA to it. And we sent one to my son's school--it's in a different county.</p>
<p>If you are a minor you have to go to the courthouse. I went three places before I got the right place.</p>
<p>So when did this requirement begin? I never had to prove my innocence.</p>
<p>Good thing, too! They never found out about that time I took an axe and......</p>
<p>Oh, no! ;)</p>
<p>You need a chainsaw tonight!</p>
<p>Phased plasma rifle with a 40-watt range will do nicely! :D</p>
<p>All the kiddies are scratching their heads and saying, "Huh?"</p>
<p>I'm glad to see we are not the only ones who had trouble with this!
We first went to the state police who acted like they had never seen the form before. They said the only thing they do there is take fingerprints, but only on Monday, and call before we come, as there is only one trooper there and if he gets called out while we are enroute, then we will have to come back next Monday. They told us to try the city police, that they will do fingerprinting on M-W between 9 and 1:00p.m.. The person there told us that this was an outdated form and they don't do it like this anymore (HA!) and to go to the county sheriff's office.<br>
We went to the county sheriff's office where I expected to see Barney Fife and Andy (this is no joke, as Don Knotts actually did grow up here, and the sheriff's office looks alot like the one on T.V.! Really a charming little building.). Instead of Barney, there was a deputy putting on his McGruff the Crime Dog costume, getting ready to go out to a school, and the Sheriff and another person helping him. I was taken with the innocence of this little office! Surprisingly, at this little office, the woman at the desk
knew what we were talking about, had seen the form before and simply put a sticker on the form for us saying our son had not been incarcerated prior to July 2004 when the jail had relocated to another county. I asked, "Is that all?" I felt like the person in a previous post who got the sticker saying all traffic fines had been paid Nothing for Juvenile record because they are not allowed.
Anyway, I figured we still needed that darn fingerprint check, so my son got out of school one Monday morning and we went to the state police barracks intending to wait for a trooper if one was not there, and get er done, which we did, and sent it off to the state capitol with $20.00 and instructions for them to send the report to USNA. Whew!
I sent everything without a return response, so I will be calling to check on it!</p>
<p>Good grief.....</p>