Personal Space

How would you feel if your whole life story was put all over the internet for everyone to see? The Fourth Amendment states the right of people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures. Privacy is such a big issue nowadays that there is an amendment for it, which should be taken seriously. You're not allowed to walk into someone's household without their consent or a warrant out on their arrest, but your able to look them up on the internet and pay monthly payments to view their criminal records, possible sex offenders, and their current and previous address. Basically their entire life is being recorded on the web. I understand that it is good to know about certain people you live around or want to get extra information about but it's not clicking to me as to why it is ok for anybody that doesn't have a licensed authority to bring up your criminal records in defined details with pictures, other family members names that have nothing to do with their crime, certain dates, approximate times, variety of areas in which their crimes took place, and more.

As I search online about background checks the only reasoning behind them are for Job purposes. In fact, 20 percent of organizations conduct criminal background checks on job candidates because they are required to do so by law. If I was a manager for a very high ranking company I would like to know about the person I'm thinking of hiring also, so that alone gives me a good enough reason to find out their history. But judging a book by its cover isn't fair, and if I did mess with the law a couple years ago and changed my ways why should it make it more difficult finding a job, a wife or a husband, or even a nice home in a reserved neighborhood. These are some of the reasons as to why it's hard for people who have made mistakes in the past to move on with their lives without looking back. Random people paying to read into your business without a good enough reason can break people down. If that person is not looking to hire you, bring you in their personal life, or planning on helping you with things that require that type of information, he or she should not be able to access any personal records.

1 in 32 grownups in the U.S. has a criminal record, so that means that there can be at least two people on each street of a nice sized community with a criminal record. Does it really mean that each of these people with a not so great history can really put you and your family in danger to the point where you have to isolate from that person and search them up online? What about ones with a clean slate, are they excluded from ever being a danger to the community just because their files aren't recorded? How can anyone change if in order to change, others need to accept and bring you in to help you change. There are beliefs that a background check could result to illegal discrimination based on the past of a person or the people he or she is associated with in the past. At what point will the line be drawn when dealing with ones invasion of privacy?


Work Cited
www.courtcheck.com/pros.pdf
criminalsearch.wordpress.com/.../pros-and-cons-of-a-background-check/

Simple Tickets not so Simple Fees

I'm pretty sure everyone has gotten a ticket or knows a little about tickets, specifically speeding tickets. Just a couple months ago I myself had gotten a ticket riding down Fauquier county's road trying to make it to work having only ten minutes to spare. The speed limits on their roads change very often ranging limits from 55 miles per hour to 65 miles per hour. Since I was almost near my destination I can admit I did start speeding, and in a matter of seconds a black car comes flying behind me. Of course I'm the one that gets stopped by the undercover cop, even though almost every other car was speeding also. He tells me he's doing me a favor by just giving me a ticket instead of sending me to jail for reckless driving, twenty miles above the speed limit is considered reckless driving and he put me at 74mph. on a 55mph. My court date was scheduled two months later and I had the decision whether to just call myself guilty and pay a fine of 205 dollars or to show up in court to fight my case. I'm thinking either way I'm going to be guilty so what more can the court system do for me? I realized that since I'm still a newly licensed driver, the more points I get on my license now the faster it is to get my license suspended so it was best to go to court to figure out how else I could arrange my way out of that. Well how court goes there are fee's for everything, and also depending on how your judge feels is what your going to get. My judge told me I had to go to a Saturday driving class which is 50 dollars for one day, still pay my ticket fee's that include 30 dollars for disobeying a sign, 6 dollars for each mile over, 50 dollars processing fee, and 10 dollars for other included fee's. Then I get court fee's I had to pay just because I wanted to enter to seek an easier way to fix this issue, and finally this judge had the nerve to say "well we will think about what we can do about the points on your license after you take care of your responsibilities." That's kind of harsh for my first time getting a ticket or even being inside of a court room! I wonder who determines how much exactly someone has to pay for running a red light or not making a complete stop at a stop sign. If they put a price on things we shouldn't do does it stop us from actually doing it, or does it just keep giving reasoning to why court systems are just all about the money and not about saving the community from those so called reckless drivers, robbers, or delinquents. If the court expands more on showing life consequences on what could happen if someone continues to speed instead of all these court fee's and tickets having to be paid, maybe some people will learn better and think they should stop to help the community instead of stopping to avoid paying all these unnecessary large amounts of money.

Introduction

Seeing different opinions and responses online is a very beneficial way to learn more about topics you've never learned about before, or at least in that depth. It's always good to take in information but better to give out information you now understand entirely. My blog topics will relate mostly on the court system and how they work. Not necessarily the boring step by step about all of their laws and who's guilty or not but more about the actual victims and judges, how they are treated rightfully or wrong, how money changes a lot instead of facts or valid proof, and how crocked a court can get and switch up the main focus in a case as soon as they think they're losing. It's funny how lawyers are actually getting paid so much money to "lie", or should I say only state the obvious things that can make someone look not guilty, in front of what they really know is the truth. So in these upcoming blogs I hope to reach my goal to introduce my own relate able experiences with court as well as talking about everyday common experiences with the court system.