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Jun 10, 2012, 08:58 PM
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Member Since: May 2010
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Originally Posted by PsychiatricEnigma
I actually agree with you. Technically, mental health discrimination is actually illegal in the UK (Disability Discrimination Act 1995 etc) but when enhanced CRB checks were introduced back in 2002 they've effectively brought in backdoor discrimination which very few people know about. On an enhanced CRB check it gives space for the local police Chief Inspector to disclose any information (criminal or non-criminal, mental health, known drug addictions, past investigations which concluded with no charges etc) held on you if he/she feels it's relevant for the job you're applying for. It's completely arbitrary (although I heard some forces like the London Metropolitan Police do it routinely), and there's currently no straight forward way to contest information and it doesn't have an expiration date or anything like that, it also doesn't require the consent of a qualified professional like a psychiatrist to say if it's relevant or not. I had a discussion with an ex cop about this, he said that because the police are just writing "facts" and not actual judgements on your mental health state, it's completely legal.
Anyone from the UK who is interested in the topic re: mental health / CRB should read this blog, someone did attempt to make an issue out of it, I think she actually managed to successfully contest the information so they altered it accordingly.
http://www.alastaircampbell.org/blog...in-crb-checks/
As for the US and other countries, I'm not sure, but I read somewhere that arrest records are sometimes disclosable to employers under some circumstances in some US states, and mental health act-style detentions are classed as arrests.
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The USA also has created many hidden back-doors to get around civil rights since 2001 but here it is a state by state and sadly even a person by person thing. So yes arrest records might get disclosed even for volunteer jobs but they are not supposed to be, at all unless they are felonies, but now it depends on how the officers who respond to the scene feel about; MI, the person they deal with, the city, state it takes place in. More and more records for MI interventions and anything to do with drugs are coming up in public searches when they are not supposed to. It depends on how they file the records. The more sympathy or empathy a person arouses in the officers the less likely it is to have repercussions, so discrimination is alive and kicking in the USA. A thin small cute white woman, who comes from upper-class/middle-class and does not have a drug problem(cops here hate drugs) is much less likely to suffer consequences than a colored overweight person is. Strangely this is true even if the police are colored!(?) Discrimination has gone underground and is much harder to fight.
I too find this topic very interesting too. One reason I'm on a advocacy board.
Leighe---Best of luck. I hope you are successful in getting your record erased. 
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