California LiveScan is a state-owned system operated by California Department of Justice for criminal record research and is available only to workers including work with children, elderly people, disabled persons. This includes law enforcement agencies, public schools and private schools, non-profit organizations, in-home support care organizations. Employers do not have criminal investigations across the state. All school teachers, public and private, recreational workers and nursing care workers must LiveScan.
Church pastors and nurseries are also eligible to use this program. Most churches are using LiveScan if you are already using a school of affiliated church. Organizations that use this program will send applicants rented under background checks to the LiveScan vendor who will scan the corresponding fingerprints. (Applicants will write fingerprints on a scanner that electronically scans their fingerprints ) It is reported to the country where criminal investigation of all states is being conducted online, and if the organization planning report select it, NCIC (FBI file) check will be conducted nationwide. The resulting information will be sent to the participating organization.
Although this system is one of the best systems in the country, it is to point out that the purpose of this article is to think that it is a serious flaw known to only a few people. I think it is very important, especially for parents, to know the limits of the system, someday the state looses a loophole and more children are protected.
The LiveScan system puts strict limitations on available information and distribution method of that information. Criminal history reports are sent to record administrators of organizations that are not usually the same people in large companies, regardless of whether they are employment decision makers. The record holder can tell the person who made the employment decision whether he or she has passed LiveScan or failed. They can not even know why that person failed the background check.
In California, only records related to the following categories are required to be disclosed by LiveScan. 1. Crime relating to child abuse or senile abuse 2. Sex criminals 3. Crime crimes When a crime such as theft, robbery, robbery occurred in the past 10 years,
For now, the above list looks pretty good, but let's examine some of the crimes that it does not cover. A school teacher you engage in these crimes, child mother, or her Sunday. Here are partial lists: accessories to violence, crime, help and assault, bad check writing, unlicensed gun brought in, contempt, domestic violence, camouflage, Medicare fraud, stalking behavior, drug holding, cowardly Beating assault, misdemeanor prostitution, violent acts, disorderly acts, acts that impede peace, vandalism, intrusion, malicious acts, public drunkenness and its listing follow. I do not know about you, but I want to know that they are smoking in a pot before hiring someone who works with children. Most people will agree.
Remedial measures # 2. Life does not check any civil litigation records. Now, you may think that this California LiveScan does not cover as big as you thought you are and you are right. It also does not apply to civil court rulings against people, such as restraining orders, non-abusive orders, protective orders and tobacco orders (such as stalking). Do not you think that is important? The Family Violence Prevention Fund estimates that up to 3 million women are victims of domestic violence every year and detainees are an important way to protect themselves.
Certain fact # 3 LIVESCAN does not check California criminal registration system (also known as Megan & # 39; s Law Registry). A polite sentence is not a misunderstanding. IT & TRUE! To confirm this, you can call the California Department of Justice and ask. The number is 916 227-4974. Today, perhaps you probably will ask yourself "How this might be the truth in the world". The national system designed to protect children does not check drug offenders, wife bitter, sex offenders. Even if I write this, I feel that it is difficult to believe in myself. I have not checked the megane law list of sex offenders who moved to California from another state requiring registration.
Wait a moment; it is over. There are also two areas that LiveScan does not check or report. When searching for a criminal record, it searches only records for which a person is fingerprinted. In the case of minors, non-violent crime people may be notified as displayed, like transport tickets. People arrested like that are not fingerprints. I understand that when big cities do something like a prostitute, you may use that method for both prostitutes and their "clients". Also, if you are arrested in a criminal record and you have no response such as a ruling, pleading or sending information, they will withhold information from you. The following estimate is quoted from the website: "If there is only an arrest record, but the station can not obtain the corresponding disposal information, the Ministry of Justice deters arrest information and criminal history information exists.
Because the person who worked for the background check was 13 years old and was a father of a 2 year old college student, I would have designed the system in a very different way. I certainly did not design it in a hole large enough to let the track pass, potentially making criminals accessible to the children. The more I examine this information, I'm sure that California is more interested in protecting the rights of criminals than protecting children and the elderly. In a few dozen conversations with pastors, school administrators, law enforcement people, I just talked to one person who truly knew the built-in limitations of the LiveScan system. Most people assume that if it is a state-owned system it should be the best and most complete.
When I was reviewing the data to write this article, I can also delete someone after being sexually committed, but still need to be registered as a sex offender I found out there was something. This is one of the reasons to check Megan's legal list.
Also, if someone checked my daughter's teacher, coach, counselor, or pastor in the background, I would like to do a more thorough check. I think that it is better than California for all children.
Agent: Most organizations using LiveScan need to comply with state laws, but if there is a choice, consider the private sector background check of a reputable company that will provide all the criminal information of the county county, , A list of Megan's laws and records of other states that people might have lived in.
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