Policy

In order to ensure that employees or other persons regularly on the premises of or providing services or supports, including transportation services, in any facility or program licensed, certified, funded, or approved by DDS who have the potential for unsupervised contact with persons with an intellectual or developmental disability are appropriate for serving in their respective capacities, a fingerprint-based check of the state and national criminal history databases shall be performed. It is the policy of DDS that an individual's background, including any Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI), the results of fingerprint-based checks of the state and national criminal history databases, and any other relevant information, be carefully considered so that the vulnerable populations served by DDS are protected.