WAC 388-76-10180. Background checks — Employment — Disqualifying information. [Disqualifying negative actions.]

(1) The adult family home must not employ, directly or by contract, a caregiver, entity representative, or resident manager if: (a) The caregiver, entity representative or resident manager will have unsupervised access to vulnerable adults, as defined in RCW 43.43.830 ; and either: (b) The caregiver, entity representative or resident manager has a disqualifying criminal conviction or pending charge for a disqualifying crime under chapter 388-113 WAC; or (c) The caregiver, entity representative, or resident manager has one or more of the following negative actions: (i) A court has issued a permanent restraining order or order of protection, either active or expired, against the person that was based upon abuse, neglect, financial exploitation, or mistreatment of a child or vulnerable adult; (ii) The individual is a registered sex offender; (iii) The individual is on a registry based upon a final finding of abuse, neglect or financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult, unless the finding was made by adult protective services prior to October 2003; (iv) A founded finding of abuse or neglect of a child was made against the person, unless the finding was made by child protective services prior to October 1, 1998; (v) The individual was found in any dependency action to have sexually assaulted or exploited any child or to have physically abused any child; (vi) The individual was found by a court in a domestic relations proceeding under Title 26 RCW, or under any comparable state or federal law, to have sexually abused or exploited any child or to have physically abused any child; (vii) The person has had a contract or license denied, terminated, revoked, or suspended due to abuse, neglect, financial exploitation, or mistreatment of a child or vulnerable adult; or (viii) The person has relinquished a license or terminated a contract because an agency was taking an action against the individual related to alleged abuse, neglect, financial exploitation or mistreatment of a child or vulnerable adult.