work as a substitute teacher. Maybe fifteen years ago?

Then, part of my job was fingerprinting people. Looks like they have a scanner to do it now.

In fact, that is the only time I have ever had fingerprints

Required to volunteer at my grandson's school. Also had to get a TB test. $120.00

Have gotten finger printed for both jobs (teaching) and volunteering.

Just a standard part of working with youth (unless you own a beauty pageant)

Fed employment background check 2016.

We do it every few years where I work.

Prints today are digitized (or started as scans) and are added to databases like at the NCIC.

My understanding is that my state requires anyone who will be around kids at all to be background checked and fingerprinted every few years.

Enlisting in the Air Force

& April 7, 1969 enlistment in US Navy.

But I can't remember if it was just my thinbprint or not. The last time I had my full fingerprints taken was in the mid-70s when I was interning at the County jail in college.

documents I need to reside in a foreign country.

Everyone student was printed. That's all I remember.

That was for the FBI background check for a substitute teaching license.
It was also done a month before for a different region of the state department of education.
Each region does their own, which seems a waste of money, but it's what they do.
I was amazed how fast the results come back.
The second one was done on a Tuesday & on Thursday they called to say the background check came back clean. (No surprise to me.)
The only time I got fingerprinted was for a similar vetting to take a temporary role as a consultant to the DoD (Army Corps of Engineers) & ATF for the decommissioning of an arsenal and elimination of obsolete inventory. (Mistly Vietnam era ordinance.

I don't even know if I have fingerprints. Or a reflection in the mirror. Or any gray matter between my ears!

Don't remember much about it, except a police officer came to our class and fingerprinted everybody.

to get a state insurance license.

Pre deployment to Saudi. DNA Swab as well. Identification package.

for Continental Airlines.

I could swear there was a second time but I'm not able to recall specifics right now.

I'm sure I would remember if I ever have, even though, at age 75, it could have been a long time ago.

One thought: Most of the people who are responding to this thread are answering with times when they WERE fingerprinted. Almost nobody is responding that they have NEVER been fingerprinted. That might lead some to conclude that most people HAVE been fingerprinted at some time in their lives, but that conclusion would be suspect. That's because people who HAVE been fingerprinted probably are more likely to respond, than people who have NEVER been fingerprinted.

If you've never been fingerprinted, you probably won't post a response in this thread at all.

-- Ron

not one response involved jail or arrest.

With the 19th Special Forces in 1966.

at the Trudeau Airport in Montreal. I also had a virus scan. I loved that job. The internet was slower so I'd run two cashes at the same time when I was starting my shift at 6AM.

For employment with USPS, late December 1980.

...in case of an emergency. We all went, my wife and sons, we were all finger printed.

I think we might have done it in school when studying about them but I am pretty sure they didn't go out of the classroom.

when my kids were in school they started requiring it of even parent volunteers. that really bothered me at the time as did the use of prints for ID in banks to cash a non-customer check. somehow I managed to avoid both. got away with not doing it at the school by just ignoring it and didn't really volunteer that much anyway as it was far away and I had a lot of other work going on.

Should have gone with the Global service. That’s even quicker than the TSA known traveler. But it was about $80 more each, so we didn’t get it, but it would have been worth it.

interviewed by the FBI too

did this for several accounts over the years

"Kid, we don't like your kind, and we're gonna send your fingerprints off to Washington."

And friends, somewhere in Washington enshrined in some little folder, is a study in black and white of my fingerprints.