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Council continues vote on employee criminal- and credit-check ordinance after detailed questions
Summary
Council heard a city-attorney presentation on proposed amendments to Wilmington City Code section 8-5 that would expand criminal-history checks to all final applicants and allow random criminal-history checks for employees; council asked for clarification on credit-check scope, a seven-year lookback and the appeals process and continued the item to May 19 for redlined language and additional detail.
City Attorney Meredith Everhart presented proposed changes to Wilmington City Code section 8-5 on May 4 that would require criminal-history background checks for all final applicants, authorize random criminal-history checks for current employees (similar to random drug testing), and extend targeted credit-history checks for certain financial positions.
"These checks will be done for everyone," Everhart said, adding that credit-history checks were…
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