[SteelyDan]

This question came up yesterday, and I didn't know the answer. One guy was quite certain that all federal employees are fingerprinted, while another guy, who had worked for some branch in an unglamouous capacity was positive he had not been fingerprinted. Just curious.

[goalie]

If any Federal employees are not fingerprinted, they are few and very far between. Everyone who was hired at the VA Hospital I used to work at was fingerprinted before being hired.

[Chris Rhines]

I was.

- Chris

[mnealtx]

I'm unsure if *ALL* employees are fingerprinted, however: if the position being held requires any sort of security clearance, then fingerprints are taken as part of the information packet turned in for said clearance.

[Tempest]

Just asked my husband, and he believes all are.

[Matthew Courtney]

My wife worked as a staff attorney for a Federal Judge until 2 years ago. She was not fingerprinted.

[JBP]

If you are going to be a permanent employee then your agency has one year to get a fingerprint check done (per OPM guidelines). If you are hired as a student for a summer position then some agencies won't bother with getting fingerprints. But as others have said it depends on the position being filled. After 38 years my security classification was raised and I had to go through a full background check including being fingerprinted again. I asked for an extra copy so I could send it down to Florida for my out of state CCW but the personnel officer wouldn't go for it. :uhoh:

[Malone LaVeigh]

I was fingerprinted when I went from a temp to a term employee and then again when I got my first PFT appointment.

[MeekandMild]

I don't know about ALL, but when I was in the military I was fingerprinted, footprinted, had dental x-rays and a chest x-ray. Now I hear they take DNA samples, too. All so they can ID your body from a little smear of dirt inside the 30 foot deep smoking hole that is all that is left of your airplane.

I've had more than one friend who was nothing but a couple of teeth and 160 pounds of sand when they buried him in a closed coffin.

[YankeeRebel]

When I went to work for the FAA in 1970 I was fingerprinted before I got the job. I can't remember I if was when I went to work for the USDA in 1983. As many agencies now, we are hiring contractors, and we won't go further into that subject. Our security department is fingerprinting those that will be in IT and I am not certain about the others. I am not certain what we are doing with the very few that we are actually higing as federa employees. If they are in IT and coming in from the outside, then they most probably getting fingerprinted.

[Gillster]

Was finger printed, foot-printed and DNA'd while in the USAF but no finger prints in 10 years with the VA.

Chris

[Molon Labe]

I used to work as a contractor for a Department of Energy facility. I had to have a Q-clearance, and was required to get fingerprinted. :(

I have often wondered what happened to the prints. Did they destroy them? Are they at DOE headquarters in some kind of filing system? Have they been digitized? :uhoh:

[BigG]

They are supposed to but of course some fall thru the cracks. Mine have been taken.