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You forgot to add that you are also on the s3x offender list now for whipping it out in public.
Good Luck.
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You need to disclose it. Why do you think anyone will care?
it will show up on your background check. I'd tell them in advance of the background check so they're not surprised, but no sooner. don't do this before you drop your resume or have your first interview. get the offer first, then disclose it before you get the background check.
nothing wrong with delaying telling them, big issue with lying.
similar experience here
you can probably get it expunged off your record before you even start. If you are in college, and got a citation for something typical of college students (public urination, MIP) you generally need to go to court, and at least from what I've seen, if it's the first one, they will clear it.
Lol, just disclose it. It's not worse than a traffic ticket imo, it's just funnier.
Let them know ASAP. Better that you bring it up and explain the situation than have them bring it up and pull the rug from out underneath you.
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Got A Ticket (Originally Posted: 11/02/2013)
I got a Failure To Yield ticket last night. It has a court date. Is there a way to pay it and not go to court?
I got some brochure with a registration form for traffic school and there's a section on the back of the ticket to plea guilty.
The ticket has two boxes: Court Appearance Required & No Court Appearance Required. Neither of those are checked. So I'm confused. Do I have the option to pay the fine and not do traffic school or do traffic school and not pay the fine? Is that how this works? What's the quickest way to finish this business?
I called the PD and the girl sounded confused and told me to call back later.
You can pay it or you can contest it. It's pretty clear.
Unless you got some huge field reduction, it always pays to fight the ticket.
Plead not guilty, go to court, cut a plea bargain for 0 points. Or if you are working full-time, hire an attorney.
On Monday, I am going to be in court to fight a parking ticket. This comes down to an interpretation of whether "park where stalls are marked" applies to motorcycles parked in driveways across the street from said marked stalls.
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Just go to a Traffic Law Center.
The first thing you should always do in this situation is go post your traffic ticket dilemma on a finance website. Oh - you're way ahead of me. Top man.
did you even bother to look at the date of the last post on this thread or nah.
Lol you replied to spam
1) Confirm that you will not be on a sex offender list. In my state you would be. 2) Carefully read the background check forms. Some require you to disclose minor infractions and others do not. 3) Stop peeing in public, you're too old for that shit 4) Next time, don't pay the fine. Contest it so it is dismissed or plead it down. It may cost you $500-800 more to hire an attorney if you don't want a public defender but is worth it to have something like "public intoxication" or "nuisance" on your permanent record vs. "whipped out his junk in public".
P.S. Adding since there is a small chance you did plead this out since you don't think it's a "criminal offense". I do know for a fact that an arrest showed up on my background check for an experienced hire role (DUI, reduced to reckless driving - BG check showed both the code for the arrest and the "reckless driving" on my record). They did not ask about mine, but if they ask about yours you can simply say "There was a misunderstanding, I was arrested, but they did not press criminal charges". If they really aren't criminal it just sounds like there was an asshole cop.
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