What information can a police officer obtain by running your name?

I am having a problem with someone right now who has a police officer in the family. I have no record and did nothing illegal. But I have found out that she had him run my name. What is the reason for this? What information can be obtained?

What information can a police officer obtain by running your name?
The police operate off a system that is referred to as NCIC. This system is overseen by the FBI and is strictly monitored for fraudulent use.





Only "official" inquiries can be made and if misused carries severe penalties.





The information available ranges from full name, personal identification information, criminal histories, driver information, and outstanding warrants for arrest.





Other information referred to as "public information" such as your place of employment is inaccurate.





If you believe your personal information is being provided illegally, contact the senior law enforcement official with the local agency. You can also contact your state law enforcement agency who is responsible for insuring proper use of the NCIC system.





If you have further questions concerning this issue....contact me via email directly.
Reply:A lot can be found out. All of your personal info, including your social security number.... any and all tickets or arrests.





Incidentally... all states have policies in force that make it illegal to use these data bases for non-police functions.





If you think it is happening, contact the agency he works for and make a complaint to IA or to a Shift Commander. Anytime a police officer runs a name through state or federal data bases it is tagged with a tracking number identifying the officer or person who ran the name.
Reply:The officer is not to run a check on you except for investigative purposes. However, the information obtained are criminal, civil and location records recorded within a database. Anytime you are fingerprinted, booked in jail, traffic accident etc, it pulls up in the database.
Reply:They can find out if you have any warrants out for your arrest, they can find out if you've got a criminal record. It's illegal for them to run your name without a legitimate reason.
Reply:they can find out lots of different things... even who your car is financed through... address, place of work anything that is public info
Reply:Criminal history of any kind can be obtained by law enforcement through NCIC (National Crime Information Center). Keep in mind that this only constitutes things for which you were actually "found guilty"--recent charges or dropped charges will not be on there. Nor will juvenile records--any criminal history obtained before aged 18.





Address history. Date of birth and SSN.





If you have any close associates that are known narcotics offenders, you may be on file that way, but that would be ONLY through the local agency that this officer works for.





Vehicle info if they run you through DMV but I don't know why they would do that --it's not normally part of "running a name".





That's about it.





Response to above poster: no, you do not need probable cause to run checks--it's open information. This is why so many agencies have seen a HUGE increase in warrant service, etc, since going wireless (mobile computing in the car)--they just tool around town and run checks when they have nothing else to do!