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<section article="ghs" article_name="Housing and Community Development" number="4-2708" title_number="4" title_name="Division of Development Finance" subtitle_number="27" subtitle_name="Unaccompanied Minors in Need of Shelter and Supportive Services">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “Central Repository” means the Criminal Justice Information System Central Repository of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>For each staff member who works with unaccompanied minors, a service provider shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>apply to the Central Repository for a State and national criminal history records check; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>request a private agency to conduct a background check.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>As part of an application to the Central Repository for a State and national criminal history records check, the service provider shall submit to the Central Repository:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>one complete set of legible fingerprints of the staff member taken in a format approved by the Director of the Central Repository and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the fee authorized under § 10–221(b)(7) of the Criminal Procedure Article for access to State criminal history records; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the mandatory processing fee required by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal history records check.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>In accordance with Title 10, Subtitle 2 of the Criminal Procedure Article, the Central Repository shall forward to the service provider and the staff member the criminal history record information of the staff member.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Information obtained from the Central Repository under this subsection:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>is confidential and may not be redisseminated; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>may be used only for the screening purposes authorized by this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>A person who is the subject of a criminal history records check under this subsection may contest the contents of the printed statement issued by the Central Repository as provided in §10–223 of the Criminal Procedure Article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>If a service provider requests a private agency to conduct a background check:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the private agency shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>conduct a background check in each state where the service provider knows or has reason to believe the staff member worked or resided during the past 7 years; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>issue a statement of the private agency’s findings to:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>on request, the staff member; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>the service provider; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the staff member shall have an opportunity to contest the findings of the private agency.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
