Do States Report Drug Misdemeanors to the Feds?

[OldMan&theWeed]

In some states, like California, possession of small amounts of marijuana is treated as a civil offence on the same level as a traffic ticket. Yet these drug misdemeanors are STILL drug offences.

The Feds limit peoples’ access to higher education, government jobs, advancement in the military, government contracts etc. because of past drug convictions.

Do states report minor drug related civil offenses to the FBI?

 

[Guest]

No.You might not get a job with the DEA but thats about it.

 

[StealthFarmer]

I'm not sure if they report it to the FBI but I know that when your trying to get grants and aid for school, ANY drug offense will make that impossible.

 

[mcbean]

oh that is about stupid, you have a young person or any get busted for smoken pot or braken a law and the govt wants to screw them for the rest of their life. now that really makes sense, nothing like keeping them repressed.

but then again thats the govt for ya..

peace

 

[Pops]

In some states,like the fascist theocratic dictatorship where The American lives, a felony conviction means that you lose the right to vote and own weapons for the rest of your life.

 

[Guest]

Some tourist states under-report all crimes to feds. This makes their state look more like a family vacation spot.

 

[Haps]

The FBI has lowered it's standards for pot smokers who work there. It used to be that if you had smoked weed more than 15 times in your life, you could not be an agent. Now, there is no limit to how much weed you can have smoked, if it has been three years since you toked they say you can be in the club. Guess it was hard to find quality people who had never toked weed.
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[Verite]

I think it all goes on your adult record and if they want to dig deep enough to find it they can. CJIS, NCIC, or NIBRS databases and they all cross reference. Its the kind of stuff they dig up while your trying to cross the border.

 

[Berry_Coughin']

uhm.... NCIC or any state database is just a few clicks away... no digging deep.. If they want to know they'll know....

 

[DickAnubis]

In states that treat minor possession, like walking down the street smoking a J, as a local infraction with a fine, most cops don't put down the full info. Recently I was walking along and a man in blue noticed I was puffing a J. He stopped and asked if I was carrying. I yielded the other joint I had. He wrote me a $75 citation with disturbing the peace as violation code. He probably smoked the J with his partner later that day. Happens everyday, lot's of places, thousands of times.

Sure any minor ticket can be found, but keep in mind that the bureaucracy can work for or against you. Many people in the system's offices don't always care about how BS fines and such are filed if at all. Much falls through the cracks through mistakes and laziness. The bigger the front the bigger the back.

As far as being denied school aid, well that does suck. Let's petition for free University tuition if you keep the grade average. We are the government, don't we want our young people educated.
I'm in.

PEACE DA

 

[Verite]

It would be nice to think that they drop the ball on information input but they dont. I dont know of any po-po office that doesnt have an administrative records clerk. Your innocent looking ticket gets entered into their records management system and depending on what flags the information gets sent onward to the other databases automatically.

Ive had friends that got popped with a jay or two in their late teens early twenties and everytime they get pulled over theyre asked if they have any drugs in the car even if the charge is 20 years old. Ive been pulled over a few dozen times in more than twenty years and never asked once if I had any drugs in the car ever.

 

[StonedStupid]

as far as financial aid your not totally barred from getting grants it is only a 1 year period I know I been busted & got the Pell Grant Since

 

[Crhazey Daze]

A friend of mine had the cops at the house and they saw the remnants of a grow that had just finished. Empty Hut. No plants, no buds,No charges. Do you think this will be in some kind of record?

 

[JJScorpio]

What were the cops there for? Depending on this they may or may not put that into their report......

If it's not legal for you to be growing and you know they saw something that would lead them to believe growing had been done there, I wouldn't be starting another grow......

 

[Crhazey Daze]

Well here's the thing about that. It was legal. He called them there due to a thought-of robbery in progress by the downstairs neighbor looking to get his goods.

Another thing to consider is his new grow is in a county as liberal as humboldt.

What do you think JJ? On some time of 5.0 record?

 

[JJScorpio]

Normally whenever there is a call responded to by police they have to fill out an incident report, whether or not there is an arrest. If I had to guess I would say there's a higher percentage than not that the cop puts it into the report if he did see it.

Did they ask any questions or make any comments letting you know they saw it? Your sig says you're in compliance so does it really matter?

 

[Crhazey Daze]

It doesn't truly matter... it was more curiosity at this point. Appreciate the response.

 

[Verite]

I have lots of inside info on this and the notes from any incident report stay at that particular dept. The only thing that flags an incident report for further transmittal is when a flaggable citation is issued. Citations are assigned flags or not based on the type of citation, like a citation for dogbarking isnt going to be flagged. Citations of any violence are instant flags. The diff between criminal and driving citation is all driving citations are flagged for transmit.

 

[Crhazey Daze]

VERY good to know.

 

[krustytheclown]

Here is a definitive answer to the OP:

YES, all drug offences, no matter how small, are reported to the FBI. It will become a problem if you:

Undergo any background check on a state or federal check- particularly the ones where you have to give your fingerprints (schoolteacher/daycare jobs, government jobs, professional licensing, etc.)

Want to buy a firearm, depending on the state: some states make it a felony for you to own or possess a firearm if you had any sort of drug conviction ever.

Try to enter another country and they run your records through the FBI or State Department. Some countries, like Canada, will give you a hard time or deny you from entering their country if they find out you have a drug record (this usually only happens if they do one of those random, intensive border checks on you). Hell, even President Bush has to get an exemption to be able to visit Canada due to his DUI conviction when he was younger (I wonder if they would even allow Ted Kennedy in at all? hehe)

It's a sad state of affairs that there is nowhere to go without your past coming back to haunt you, even after you have theoretically paid your debt to society.

But, that's what we get for allowing government to get so big and intrusive into our lives.