Not true for law enforcement. I've worked in law enforcement, and they do actually require you to admit all prior contacts with law enforcement, and specifically say "including incidents where you were not charged or had records expunged". And they make you do it on a notarized court document the carries criminal penalties if you commit perjury on. So you can choose to lie, but if at any point in your 6 months of background check it's found out you left anything out, the best outcome you can expect is getting immediately disqualified and any future departments you apply for will contact the one you got DQed from and will also permanently disqualify you. If it's a serious enough lie, they'll arrest you for perjury. I've since quit law enforcement, but I've seen numerous applicants have their ambitions to be a police officer cut short for life for leaving out stuff they didn't think they needed to include on their background packets, including "expunged" arrest records.

And that doesn't even include the year-long anal probing you get from the federal government if you how to apply for a security clearance, especially if it's top secret or above. They'll send people to talk to your next-door neighbors from 10 years ago across the country to find out if you're lying, and they don't give a flying fuck what some judge told you about your record being expunged when you got arrested for selling weed when you were 17. If they find out about something, and when you're being checked for a top-secret or above clearance, they will find out, and you didn't tell them, you're proper fucked.

Not true for law enforcement. I've worked in law enforcement, and they do actually require you to admit all prior contacts with law enforcement, and specifically say "including incidents where you were not charged or had records expunged". And they make you do it on a notarized court document the carries criminal penalties if you commit perjury on. So you can choose to lie, but if at any point in your 6 months of background check it's found out you left anything out, the best outcome you can expect is getting immediately disqualified and any future departments you apply for will contact the one you got DQed from and will also permanently disqualify you. If it's a serious enough lie, they'll arrest you for perjury. I've since quit law enforcement, but I've seen numerous applicants have their ambitions to be a police officer cut short for life for leaving out stuff they didn't think they needed to include on their background packets, including "expunged" arrest records.

And that doesn't even include the year-long anal probing you get from the federal government if you how to apply for a security clearance, especially if it's top secret or above. They'll send people to talk to your next-door neighbors from 10 years ago across the country to find out if you're lying, and they don't give a flying fuck what some judge told you about your record being expunged when you got arrested for selling weed when you were 17. If they find out about something, when you're being checked for a top-secret orb of clearance, they will find out, you didn't tell them, you're proper fucked.

Not true for law enforcement. I've worked in law enforcement, and they do actually require you to admit all prior contacts with law enforcement, and specifically say "including incidents where you were not charged or had records expunged". And they make you do it on a notarized court document the carries criminal penalties if you commit perjury on. So you can choose to lie, but if at any point in your 6 months of background check it's found out you left anything out, the best outcome you can expect is getting immediately disqualified and any future departments you apply for will contact the one you got DQed from and will also permanently disqualify you. If it's a serious enough lie, they'll arrest you for perjury. I've since quit law enforcement, but I've seen numerous applicants have their ambitions to be a police officer cut short for life for leaving out stuff they didn't think they needed to include on their background packets, including "expunged" arrest records.