ATLANTA — A local man said he was blindsided by the 28-page background check his employers handed him Monday as they fired him.
"I've never stolen. I've never done drugs. And I'm not a violent person. This has shut me down," Terry Lee Jackson told Channel 2's Tony Thomas.
Jackson called himself "old Bubba from the Southeast." He insists he's not the 57-year-old Terry Jackson charged with three counts of armed robbery or another Terry Jackson listed on the Connecticut sex offender registry, but that's who the background check linked him to.
"Have you ever lived in Connecticut?" Thomas asked him.
"Nope," Jackson responded.
Though, he does admit he's had scrapes with the law, including federal charges, but nothing that would cost him a warehouse job.
Without a paycheck, Jackson worries he'll soon lose his car and house.
"How do you protect yourself?" Jackson said.
Here's a table from ClarkHoward.com on how to screen yourself: