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Applicant Submissions
General
The Crime Information Bureau processes and checks applicant/licensee fingerprint
cards for law enforcement positions, NCIC security clearance, watchman/guard
(440.26), lottery positions, Indian gaming, and other employment requests that
require fingerprinting as provided by State statute. These cards are processed,
searched through the file, and returned to the law enforcement agency for filing
along with any information obtained on whom the card was submitted. Prior to July
1, 1987, applicant cards for purposes other than law enforcement were processed at
no cost to the requesting agency. Statute 165.82 mandates that the Crime
Information Bureau imposes a search fee for each search of the criminal history files
for purposes unrelated to criminal justice. Upon submission of an applicant card the
contributing agency will receive one of two types of return information.
• NO RECORD: An applicant card received and processed that results
in no discovery of a prior record in the CIB files will be stamped
"APPLICANT" and returned to the contributing agency with the
notation of "NO RECORD OUR FILES" stamped across the charge
block of the fingerprint card.
• RECORD ATTACHED: An applicant card received and processed
that results in the disclosure of a prior record in the CIB files will be
stamped "APPLICANT" and returned to the contributing agency with
the notation of "IDENTIFICATION TRANSCRIPT ATTACHED"
stamped across the charge block of the fingerprint card.
Fingerprint-based background checks are also available from the FBI only when
pursuant to a state statute approved by the United States Attorney General or by
federal law.
All applicant fingerprint requests may be submitted on FBI applicant fingerprint
cards. CIB will process applicant requests whether received on FBI applicant cards
or CIB fingerprint cards clearly marked “applicant”.
Law Enforcement Applicant Card & NCIC Security
Clearance
The administrative rules of the Law Enforcement Standards Board Chapter LES2 list
Recruitment Qualifications for law enforcement agencies. LES2.01(f) states "the
applicant shall be of good character" and LES2.01(f)(1)(A) further states that "good
character" shall be determined in part from "the fingerprinting of all applicants with
a search of local, state, and national fingerprint records." Pursuant to the
administrative rules, law enforcement agencies must obtain the fingerprints of all
applicants prior to employment with their law enforcement agency. The "law
enforcement applicant" must be printed and two fingerprint cards submitted. These
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