Back in 2009 and 2010 I worked for the US Census. Yes, if you didn’t fill out your form, I was the one who came to your door to get your answers. Because it was a gubmint job, I was fingerprinted both years.
In 2014 I took classes for my Life Insurance license for the Commonwealth of PA. Once again, I was printed.
All three times the person taking the prints had problems. The ink prints wouldn’t show a couple of my fingers on both hands. The digital prints only registered my thumb and forefinger on the left hand. This was a bit of a problem because our time clock required a print I couldn’t provide. (Right thumb.) Darn thing never could read my fingers. I ended up filling out paper time sheets.
Yup. In NH you are required to be fingerprinted before you can work in a school. Some towns want to fingerprint school volunteers too, but I’m not sure if any have actually followed through with that.
I was a civilian employee who worked for the Department of Defense at one time. So yes, I was fingerprinted as part of the investigation required to give me a security clearance.
I used to have a private investigator license. I had to get printed for that. At a previous job I was tangentially involved in providing IT services to the IRS. I had to get some kind of low-level clearance for that (I forget exactly what the level of clearance was). I got printed for that. So, just twice, I think.
Oh, I just remembered that in middle school, we took a field trip to the local police station. They printed everyone in the class. I wonder if they kept them or if they were just doing it to impress/scare us kids. They also briefly locked us all in a holding cell. Because they were pricks.
I was fingerprinted when I applied for my security clearance, 30 years ago. Never before or since.
Actually, now that I think about it, I had to submit fingerprints with my application (I had them taken at the local police department), but I don’t recall they were ever taken when I started work. Aside from the police officer’s signature on the fingerprint card, they had nothing to verify that those prints came from my fingers.
I was working at a stock brokerage, so I had to be bonded per SEC rules. Part of that required fingerprints. I also met have been fingerprinted when I worked at OTB.
I don’t know if it’s statewide or just local, but I was printed back when I volunteered as a math tutor. Digital, both whole hands then each fingertip, thumbs included. Thourough.
Once for a firearms permit and once when I was arrested on a suspicion that was very suspicious in and of itself.
(The subject wanted was roughly 6’2", blond straight hair, clean shaven and thin. I wasn’t anywhere close to being any of those things in the wildest stretch of the terms. It was a generic hassle episode and not all that odd back then.)
I have a vague memory of being printed at school when I was a kid in the 70’s. Not sure if that’s a true memory or not. Was printed in the 90’s for my bank job, so the FBI got those. One of my current jobs has my right thumbprint for both the timecard system and the drug storage unit. My phone has partial prints of both thumbs and forefingers. And finally, I just applied for my concealed carry license in Illinois for which electronic prints were taken with a little difficulty due to my oily/wet hands, and then inked for Utah, with issues on my left hand for same reason - instructor thinks a request for re-try will come from Utah before they approve that one.