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    Exclamation Will Having a Juvenile Record Bar You from the Police Academy

    My question involves criminal records for the state of: Florida
    When I was 12 years old my mother had me on ADHD medication and I did not like taking it. When I went to throw it away at the bus stop my friend then asked if he could take it off my hands. I was young and stupid and gave him the one pill. My friend then turned around and sold it and it eventually got back to the school that it was me who gave away the pill first even though I did not know he was going to sell it. My mother got called to the school to sign documents and pick me up because I had been expelled. Before my mother could even be present the principal and a police officer had made me sign an affidavit stating I was guilty and did not want to take it to court and that I was now expelled. I was never formally charged, I never went to court or was found guilty, but the Marines did say that they couldn't take me because of it and that if I had expunged it before they saw it I would have been accepted. Will I get accepted into the police academy even though I have that on my record or do I need to expunge it first? Thank you for your time

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    Default Re: Will Having a Juvie Record Bar You from the Police Academy

    If you never went to court, then it is not a "true finding" or conviction. Therefore, there should be legal bar to employment as a peace officer based upon this incident even, assuming, that it would have been a bar had you gone to court. No court means there is nothing to expunge.

    Will it cause a problem in a background for an agency? Maybe. But, at 12 years old, I am assuming that at least 9 years have passed since then. What you have done in the intervening years will be far more important than what you did as a middle schooler.

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    Default Re: Will Having a Juvie Record Bar You from the Police Academy

    I am 22 now about to be 23 Have had steady work graduated from high school and have never had a run in with the law since

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    Default Re: Will Having a Juvie Record Bar You from the Police Academy

    Quote Quoting zacharyduff
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    I am 22 now about to be 23 Have had steady work graduated from high school and have never had a run in with the law since
    It shouldn't really be an issue, then.

    I am not sure how the Marines found out about it, unless there was a school record of the expulsion and THAT was what caused the problem. A law enforcement background generally is not going to pull your middle school or even high school records beyond your transcripts. Even then, the fact that a 12 year old passed off his prescribed ADHD pill to a classmate is not going to raise serious concerns by itself. Yes, you may have to admit to this event, but, I cannot imagine it will be an issue. It would not be one out here in CA. You might consider talking to a background investigator at a nearby law enforcement agency in your part of FL to get their impression on it.

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