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"Background check" for clerkship = drug test?
Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 3:58 am
by Anonymous User
One of the conditions to my clerkship offer is passing a "routine background check"? Does a "routine background check" typically include a drug test?
Re: "Background check" for clerkship = drug test?
Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 10:59 am
by Anonymous User
No, at least not in my case. I'm a COA clerk. For my background check, I went in, got fingerprinted, someone ran my prints against an FBI (I think) database, someone else ran a check of my employment history, and I believe that was it.
Re: "Background check" for clerkship = drug test?
Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 12:01 pm
by missinglink
Do you mean internship/externship or clerkship? There's a difference.
Anyways, nada for mine. Just the basic fingerprinting and criminal background check. I have heard that *some* courts do this, but that's been the exception.
Re: "Background check" for clerkship = drug test?
Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 12:16 pm
by Anonymous User
Is the background check comparable to DOJ or AUSUA? i.e., is it an FBI background chcek with interviews of people from your past, sleuthing around old residences, etc. etc.?
OR just a fingerprint check?
Re: "Background check" for clerkship = drug test?
Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 12:17 pm
by Anonymous User
Anonymous User wrote:No, at least not in my case. I'm a COA clerk. For my background check, I went in, got fingerprinted, someone ran my prints against an FBI (I think) database, someone else ran a check of my employment history, and I believe that was it.
ditto - but COA intern
Re: "Background check" for clerkship = drug test?
Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 3:49 pm
by Anonymous User
Anonymous User wrote:No, at least not in my case. I'm a COA clerk. For my background check, I went in, got fingerprinted, someone ran my prints against an FBI (I think) database, someone else ran a check of my employment history, and I believe that was it.
Same for me (CoA full-time clerk).