Background Checks: Difference between revisions
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=== Policy Statement === | === Policy Statement === | ||
'''Portland NET and BEECN training is open to everyone, regardless of past offense records; no one will be barred from taking basic training.''' <mark>However, persons whose record includes conviction(s) for a felony, sex crime that requires registration, stalking offense, person crime misdemeanor committed less than ten years ago, or non-person misdemeanor committed less than three years ago may not be certified as a PBEM volunteer and permitted to join a team.</mark> In compliance with City code, <mark>all Active BEECN and NET volunteers are required to complete a criminal background check every three years.</mark> | '''Portland NET and BEECN training is open to everyone, regardless of past offense records; no one will be barred from taking basic training.''' <mark>However, persons whose record includes conviction(s) for a felony, sex crime that requires registration, stalking offense, person crime misdemeanor committed less than ten years ago, or non-person misdemeanor committed less than three years ago may not be certified as a PBEM volunteer and permitted to join a team.</mark> In compliance with City code, <mark>all Active BEECN and NET volunteers are required to complete a criminal background check every three years.</mark> | ||
PBEM does not preserve the details of criminal background checks, and any information obtained through the check is deleted/destroyed after use. | |||
=== Scope === | === Scope === | ||
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; Portland Bureau of Emergency Management (PBEM) | ; Portland Bureau of Emergency Management (PBEM) | ||
: Pays for any required criminal background check a volunteer or prospective volunteer is subject to, evaluates and makes decisions about policy exceptions, tracks currency of volunteers' criminal background check and ensures that they are renewed every three years from the date of a volunteer's activation. | : Pays for any required criminal background check a volunteer or prospective volunteer is subject to, evaluates and makes decisions about policy exceptions, tracks currency of volunteers' criminal background check and ensures that they are renewed every three years from the date of a volunteer's activation. | ||
; PBEM volunteers and prospective volunteers | ; PBEM volunteers and prospective volunteers ("trainees") | ||
: Completes any procedures associated with fulfilling criminal background check requirements. | : Completes any procedures associated with fulfilling criminal background check requirements. | ||
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===== Q: When do I request a background check? ===== | ===== Q: When do I request a background check? ===== | ||
''A: Never! | ''A: Never! PBEM will contact prospective volunteers at the appropriate time when their background check must be completed. Typically this is just before becoming an Active volunteer, near the end of Basic NET Training or after BEECN training. Active volunteers will be notified by PBEM when their check expires and must be renewed.'' | ||
===== '''Q: I joined a Basic NET/Basic BEECN class but nobody has asked me for a record check. Why?''' ===== | |||
''A: In order to keep costs down, PBEM runs background checks on prospective volunteers when [[PBEM Volunteer Types and Statuses#PBEM Volunteer Status|all other activation requirements]] are met for a volunteer (e.g. completion of basic training). PBEM has complete discretion concerning the timing of running a volunteer's criminal record check.'' | |||
===== Q: What if I was accused of a crime but not convicted? ===== | ===== Q: What if I was accused of a crime but not convicted? ===== | ||
