If it really is public information then it's perfectly OK to publish it. Complain to the politicians if you don't like arrest records being public. If you're su

If it really is public information then it's perfectly OK to publish it. Complain to the politicians if you don't like arrest records being public. If you're supposed to have a "clean" record then you should just lie to your employer and say "I wasn't convicted". That's what a cleaned record does anyway. Mr. Birnbaum would have been telling as much of a lie by not mentioning his conviction like he'd hoped to.