L.A. County corrections and Incarcerated Relative

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I sent an app for LA County Sheriff RN, and received a test date.

I am a bit concerned because I have a close relative in the CA Prision system.

Does anyone know if this will cause me to be disqualified?

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Did you disclose it in your application if there was a section for it? If not, notify your background investigator if you get to that point. They find out later, it is an integrity issue.

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Shouldn't be as long as you are honest and up front

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No it will not matter

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Specializes in Hospice, corrections, psychiatry, rehab, LTC.

In our interview process we ask an unscored question at the end regarding whether the applicant has any friends or relatives incarcerated in any correctional system. We have never disqualified anyone who answered "yes", since they were honest and told us about it. However, when people lie to us about it (we find out later that they are married to an inmate, say) that is a problem.

We had one applicant who lied to us about her own criminal record. She said that she had never been arrested or convicted. She did time in two states, had been arrested probably ten times. What in her tiny brain told her that the Department of Corrections wouldn't check her criminal history...

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