And you should get that - by making an official request for those records, and presenting documents that show that the person is applying to your job which involves supervising women and children.
None of which requires it to be at the distance of a click.
I, for one, don't think a murderer should be forgiven. A murderer gets to live, and the victim is no longer alive, there is fundamentally nothing you can do to be forgiven for murder. To me, that is as it should be.
I, on the other hand, would rather not get robbed because your draconian policies left the murderer alive but unable to get a job.
Sure. But let's make that list formal, with recognised judicial ways of getting on it, and recognised judicial ways of getting off it, rather than just "this newspaper said it", which leaves people without recourse unless they can afford lawyers.
That would make sense if you were never guilty of it, but I disagree completely with the idea that somebody who has been ruled guilty (without a successful appeal) has a right to be forgotten only for having served their time.
> For adults, the rehabilitation period is one year for community orders, two years for custodial sentences of six months or less, four years for custodial sentences of over six months and up to and including 30 months, and seven years for custodial sentences of over 30 months and up to and including 48 months. Custodial sentences of over four years will never become spent and must continue to be disclosed when necessary.
This has been part of UK law since at least 1974. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/53
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehabilitation_of_Offenders_Ac...
I mean, on the most basic level, a prior offense is an excellent predictor of a future offense. If I want to hire somebody to supervise women or children, I'd like not to hire somebody who (at any point in their life) victimized women or children, because it's not too much to ask!
I, for one, don't think a murderer should be forgiven. A murderer gets to live, and the victim is no longer alive, there is fundamentally nothing you can do to be forgiven for murder. To me, that is as it should be.
At very least, the perpetrator of a crime should not be left to decide whether or not I forgive him, and to enforce that through the courts.