§ 2-41. Critical security or public safety position fingerprinting and background security screening requirements.

(a)

Applicants, employees, volunteers, temporary employees and appointees working in positions deemed critical to security or public safety by the county commission ("safety sensitive positions") may be subjected to an employment screening which shall include being fingerprinted and having said fingerprints forwarded to the state department of law enforcement (or successor agency) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (or successor agency) for obtaining the respective state and federal criminal history record checks.

(b)

The results of said record checks shall be used by the county human resources director and his/her designees to determine the eligibility of any person to commence or continue working in a safety sensitive position as an employee, volunteer or otherwise. The human resources director shall ensure that the results are handled in a professional manner and policies or procedures shall be adopted so as to deter any improper or unauthorized use of such results.

(c)

Nothing herein shall be read, interpreted or construed so as to prevent or prohibit the county from utilizing any other background screening measures which may now or hereafter be authorized by law.

( Ord. No. 2016-9, §§ 1—3, 3-22-2016 )

Editor's note

Ord. No. 2016-9, §§ 1—3, adopted March 22, 2016 , was not specifically amendatory. At the editor's discretion those provisions have been included herein as § 2-41.