Lane von Herzen: Electronic Request of FBI Fingerprint Background Check

My Third Novel's Conclusion, My Heartbreak

My heart begins to break when I think about completing this particular book -- because this narrative has sustained me like no other story I've known. It's both more personal and more universal than my other works. But beyond memory and archetype, it's a cri-de-coeur about needing to become the person one is destined to be. And in the writing, I have met my own life's work, my own fated journey -- having the sense all the while that the pages are suffused with a resonance, an energy, an electrified field that defies explanation. Writers hope and pray to be overtaken by a work in this way -- to be conscripted into passionate service of a profound story. To experience it even once in a lifetime seems a great privilege. I still have several months before this novel is complete, and this constitutes my reprieve. Because I'm not ready for the beauty to end.

Friday, September 5, 2025

Electronic Request of FBI Fingerprint Background Check

OIG Hotline, the Privacy Statement connected to the FBI's online Fingerprint Background Check is below:

This statement may contradict your Office's original settlement agreement with the FBI, prohibiting the agency and its affiliates from engaging in defamation toward me and toward my family members.

Because I have not been provided with the original settlement agreement from your Office, and further, because I have been deprived of legal advice, I will request records from the FBI through a mail-in process that is traceable. I note that records should normally be provided by the FBI within two weeks, and I will request that these be mailed to my home address. Given what appear to be extraordinary attempts at false reporting by the FBI, I expect the FBI's falsified records to be substantive, not blank. These crimes of false reporting by the agency should not be permitted to be erased, and hope this insistence is shared by all parties involved in this matter.

I will update your Office further with the details of my request, and, indeed, the specifics will be rendered public on my blog until and unless I receive outreach from the FBI or DOJ requesting a confidential dialogue pertaining to the FBI's crimes of knowingly falsified law enforcement reporting, and all associated harms, perpetrated against my family members and myself.

Thank you for allowing me to document these concerns.

Most sincerely,