I can't speak as to whether you should bring it up (I personally wouldn't), but- working in an industry that's adjacent to background checks, I find it very unl

I can't speak as to whether you should bring it up (I personally wouldn't), but- working in an industry that's adjacent to background checks, I find it very unlikely that this will come up. The US federal-state-county system is a disorganized mess on multiple levels, and they don't all report consistently. Also, many background check companies are pure BS- CYA so that the employer can say 'well we checked'. (For example, Uber/Lyft). A good rule of thumb is the longer the check takes, the more legit it is- companies that do 48 hour background checks are just scammers. There's a reason a security clearance investigation takes a long time. FWIW, a friend I went to high school with did 19 months in federal prison for drug trafficking, and is technically a convicted felon. He has passed multiple background checks that show he has an absolutely clean record- two white collar employers and one for the expensive apartment building he lives in, all in Manhattan. (He's now a Senior VP of a company). I have no idea how this works, but he swears it's true. For one employer he confessed everything he did, they did a background check anyways and told him 'you don't come up in the system' (and hired him anyways). Honestly, coming up in Google results is tougher to beat