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State police say CJIS audit prompted tweak to background-check statute; committee likely to accept amendment
Summary
Following an FBI CJIS audit, state police recommended amending a background-check statute so conviction information goes to the commissioner or a department-of-safety employee designated by the commissioner (and authorized to receive such records); the committee asked for written language and signaled it may adopt the change as a committee amendment.
Senate Bill 568, a bill about background-check procedures tied to agency hiring and commissioner designees, drew testimony from Victor Muzzy, a captain who oversees the Justice Information Bureau at the state police.
Muzzy told the committee that a recent FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) audit found the state needed clearer statutory language about who may receive criminal-conviction…
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