WSR 18-13-058
PERMANENT RULES
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
TRAINING COMMISSION
[Filed June 14, 2018, 8:24 a.m., effective July 15, 2018]
Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
Purpose: This criminal records check will ensure that applicants to the basic corrections academy have undergone a search of state and national criminal history records information.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 18-09-101 on April 18, 2018.
Changes Other than Editing from Proposed to Adopted Version: This criminal records check will ensure that applicants to the basic corrections academy have undergone a search of state and national criminal history records information.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at the Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's own Initiative: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted using Negotiated Rule Making: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: June 13, 2018.
Sonja Peterson
Rules Coordinator
NEW SECTION
WAC 139-10-211Backgrounding requirement for admission to basic corrections officers academy.
For the purposes of this chapter, it is the responsibility of each sponsoring or applying agency to conduct a complete criminal records check to include a search of state and national criminal history records information regarding its applicant through the submission of the applicant's fingerprints to an appropriate agency or agencies.
Each application for academy attendance must be accompanied by a written attestation by the applying agency that:
(1) The criminal records check has been completed; and
(2) There are no disqualifying convictions.