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Drafts/Laws regarding pre-employment fingerprinting

Drafts

Laws regarding pre-employment fingerprinting

Many employers require a prospective employee to submit to finger printing prior to employment.

• What are the rules/laws relating to the use of these fingerprints?
• What are the rules/laws relating to fees associated with this and what are the rules allowing or limiting the fees which may be charged to the applicant?
• What are the rules relating to a finger print check that returns a negative result--that return a result indicating the individual's fingerprints are contained in a database?
  • Is there a right to examine and dispute these results?
• What is the purpose of this fingerprinting?
  • Is it to verify the identity of the candidate?
  • Is it to confirm the claims of the applicant in the application?
• Does the prospective employer have a requirement to disclose the databases that will be searched?

External Links

• fbi.gov: Identity History Summary Checks
• Can An Employer Ask Me to Pay for My Own Background Check?
• Can a Company Make Applicants Pay for Background Checks & Fingerprinting?