Background Checks: Difference between revisions
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# You will see references to '''FCRA, the Fair Credit Reporting Act'''. This Federal law dictates the disclosures required for PBEM to obtain your consent. The name is misleading: We '''DO NOT''' check your credit, and we '''DO NOT''' report any findings to anyone outside the City of Portland government. Your credit rating is not relevant to your volunteer service, and cannot be viewed nor affected as part of this criminal background check. | # You will see references to '''FCRA, the Fair Credit Reporting Act'''. This Federal law dictates the disclosures required for PBEM to obtain your consent. The name is misleading: We '''DO NOT''' check your credit, and we '''DO NOT''' report any findings to anyone outside the City of Portland government. Your credit rating is not relevant to your volunteer service, and cannot be viewed nor affected as part of this criminal background check. | ||
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== Compliance == | |||
Prospective volunteers who do not complete or cooperate with the criminal background check process will not matriculate as active volunteers. They will languish in a strange limbo status where the shadows are long, the meals taste of sawdust, and the birds will not sing their names. | |||
== Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) == | == Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) == | ||
