[troyk]

I founded the first web based background screening company in 1996 and I am back in the industry today, here is what I would do:

tldr; if it is sealed, do not worry about it. If not, be upfront as soon as possible.

Call the court clerk in the county the record is sealed in and confirm the record is sealed; If so, when a court researcher searches for the record, it will not appear and not be reported by the CRA (Consumer Reporting Agency is the technical term for a background screening company).

If you have never lived or worked in this county, it may never be searched.

If somehow the county reports the record and it is sealed, and the employer does not hire you because of the record, the employer has to do what is called the adverse action process, which gives you an opportunity to dispute the information before taking final action. During this time, you can have the CRA remove the record.

Enjoy hacking away at a FAANG!

[djannzjkzxn]

It’s interesting that you can call the clerk to determine that a record is sealed - it sounds like a potential vulnerability where sealed records can be exposed by social engineering.

[VLM]

As a disclaimer every court in the nation can operate differently although they're all kinda similar.

Adoption records in the USA were sealed last century. Seems to be a temporary fad that's going away. Maybe it was a Spanish Flu thing.

Anyway if you try to pull my long deceased great-great-uncle's records for genealogy, they simply give you a negative result to the query, although "everyone knows" he was adopted.