Hey Team –

 

You are aware, I’m sure, that the state is resuming full background check requirements – including fingerprinting – for new employees, and also requiring that any employees hired during the pandemic get in to be fingerprinted within a defined time frame (currently I think it’s 90 days from end of peacetime emergency as declared by the governor, but there has been a request to either lengthen that time period, or to allow employees to be sort of grandfathered in, and only have to be fingerprinted if they leave their current job and get a new one).

 

Simultaneously the state is re-opening fingerprinting locations, but will not be at 100% for a while, which can potentially cause hardship for agencies in locations without easy access.

 

 

We are preparing a response to give the state to hopefully impact their decisions on timing.

 

PLEASE REPLY by 5:00PM Wednesday.  (Just reply to me, not the whole workgroup!)

 

Thanks much -