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Personnel director warns of legal limits on committee‑led criminal background checks in Rule 33 rewrite
Summary
County personnel director told the Rules Committee that statewide and national criminal background checks require specific agency access and procedures; the committee removed proposed language that would have directed chairs to perform lien and background checks and instead discussed a disclosure requirement for appointees.
The Putnam County personnel director told the Rules Committee on Feb. 17 that portions of a proposed Rule 33 revision related to in‑committee lien and criminal background checks would be difficult to implement as written and raised legal risks.
Paul Eldred, the county's director of personnel, told the committee that statewide and federal criminal background checks are restricted to agencies that hold originating agency identifiers (ORIs) and that the county already uses controlled channels for those checks. "To do a statewide and to do a national criminal background check...there's only certain agencies that are allowed to do that," Eldred said, describing the technical and contractual requirements — an ORI number, a terminal access coordinator…
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