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    Default Two University Underage Violations in Pennsylvania Involving Disorderly Conduct

    My question involves criminal law for the state of: Pennsylvania.

    I am in college in Pennsylvania, and have received two citations for Disorderly Conduct and Disturbance while on the campus of the university. I have two questions that I need help with: 1.) Does a citation taken by the university I am at get reported to the police or any legal authority, and 2.) Will it have any effects on chances of receiving future employment. Will employers find this information through background searches or education verification?

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    You're talking about convictions of summary offenses (not misdemeanors) under this statute:
    Quote Quoting 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 5503. Disorderly conduct
    (a) Offense defined. -- A person is guilty of disorderly conduct if, with intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, he:
    (1) engages in fighting or threatening, or in violent or tumultuous behavior;

    (2) makes unreasonable noise;

    (3) uses obscene language, or makes an obscene gesture; or

    (4) creates a hazardous or physically offensive condition by any act which serves no legitimate purpose of the actor.
    (b) Grading. -- An offense under this section is a misdemeanor of the third degree if the intent of the actor is to cause substantial harm or serious inconvenience, or if he persists in disorderly conduct after reasonable warning or request to desist. Otherwise disorderly conduct is a summary offense.

    (c) Definition. -- As used in this section the word "public" means affecting or likely to affect persons in a place to which the public or a substantial group has access; among the places included are highways, transport facilities, schools, prisons, apartment houses, places of business or amusement, any neighborhood, or any premises which are open to the public.
    It's my understanding that a Pennsylvania summary offense is only considered to be a criminal offense if you are sentenced to jail, and otherwise the only record of the offense is going to be with the police department and courts which were involved. (If your fingerprints were taken, they may be in a state database.) Under Pennsylvania law, conviction records for summary offenses "shall not be used in consideration of an application for a license, certificate, registration or permit" 18 Pa.C.S. Code § 9124, although some employers (such as school districts) can use any past citation as a basis to deny employment.

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