Senate Bill 0378

    Florida Senate - 2000                                   SB 378

    By Senator King





    8-77A-00

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to release of employee

  3         information by employers; providing specified

  4         requirements of employers with respect to a

  5         background investigation of an applicant for

  6         employment or appointment as a full-time,

  7         part-time, or auxiliary law enforcement

  8         officer, correctional officer, or correctional

  9         probation officer; providing requirements with

10         respect to an authorization to release

11         information; providing an effective date.

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13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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15         Section 1.  When a law enforcement, correctional, or

16  correctional probation officer is conducting a background

17  investigation of an applicant for temporary or permanent

18  employment or appointment as a full-time, part-time, or

19  auxiliary law enforcement, correctional, or correctional

20  probation officer with an employing agency as defined in

21  section 943.10(4), Florida Statutes, the applicant's current

22  or former employer, or the employer's agent, shall provide to

23  the officer conducting the background investigation the

24  complete employment record of the applicant and, to the extent

25  known, any other verifiable information that would lead

26  someone to believe that the applicant fails to meet the

27  minimum qualifications set forth in section 943.13, Florida

28  Statutes. The investigating officer must present to the

29  current or former employer credentials demonstrating

30  employment credentials demonstrating employment with the

31  employing agency. Upon the presentation of an authorization

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    Florida Senate - 2000                                   SB 378
    8-77A-00




  1  form for release of information, the employer shall provide to

  2  the investigating officer the requested information, which may

  3  include a copy of the complete employment record or portion

  4  thereof. The form must be designed and approved by the

  5  Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission and must:

  6         (1)  Be either the original authorization or a copy or

  7  facsimile of the original authorization.

  8         (2)  Have been executed by the applicant no more than 1

  9  year before the request.

10         (3)  Contain a statement that the authorization has

11  been specifically furnished to the presenting law enforcement

12  agency.

13         (4)  Bear the notarized signature of the applicant.

14         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

15  law.

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18                       LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY

19    Provides specified requirements of employers with respect
      to a background investigation of an applicant for
20    employment or appointment as a full-time, part-time, or
      auxiliary law enforcement officer, correctional officer,
21    or correctional probation officer. Provides requirements
      with respect to an authorization to release information.
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