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Legal Affairs committee backs drafting revisions to fingerprinting procedure (Section 16‑5)
Summary
Legal Affairs recommended the city clerk draft and present ordinance language to revise Section 16‑5 on fingerprinting; the council voted to authorize the clerk to prepare materials for draft and advertisement.
The Peabody City Council’s Legal Affairs Committee met before the Sept. 11 council session and unanimously recommended changes to Section 16‑5 (civil fingerprinting) intended to formalize how fingerprint results and FBI records are returned to applicants who fail background checks.
Councilor Rosignol, chair of Legal Affairs, reported that the committee met with the City Clerk and Police Chief Griffin. The committee’s recommended revisions would require the police department, when it determines an application failed a background check, to provide the applicant with a copy of the fingerprint results and to offer the applicant an opportunity to challenge the accuracy of the records, including any FBI identification record.
The committee voted to ask the clerk to draft updated language and present it to the council for drafting and advertisement; the full council authorized that step on a roll call vote. Councilors said the change is intended to add transparency and give applicants a clear path to review or contest criminal‑record information relied on for municipal licensing or other approvals.
