Arkansas Code Title 21, Chapter 15 - Criminal Background Checks

• § 21-15-101 - Definitions.
  As used in this subchapter: (1) "Applicant" means a person applying for employment with a state agency; (2) "Central registry check" means a review...
• § 21-15-102 - Positions Involving Direct Contact With Children and With Mentally Ill and Developmentally Disabled Persons.
  (a) (1) (A) When a person applies for employment with a state agency in a designated position and if the state agency intends to...
• § 21-15-103 - Deadline -- Scope of Check -- Report -- Notice -- Discharge for Persons in Designated Positions.
  (a) (1) A state agency shall ensure that any incumbent employee in a designated position has a subsequent criminal background check completed within five...
• § 21-15-104 - Waiver of Exclusion or Discharge Requirement for Persons in Designated Positions.
  (a) (1) The provisions of §§ 21-15-102(a)(4), 21-15-102(f), 21-15-103(e), 21-15-103(g), and 21-15-110(b) may be waived by the director of a state agency upon the...
• § 21-15-105 - Confidentiality.
  (a) Any information received by a state agency from the Identification Bureau of the Department of Arkansas State Police or from a central registry...
• § 21-15-106 - Rules and Regulations -- Records.
  (a) All state agencies with a designated position or a designated financial or information technology position shall adopt the necessary rules and regulations to...
• § 21-15-107 - Identification Bureau and Registries -- Duties.
  (a) (1) After receipt of a request for a criminal history check, the Identification Bureau of the Department of Arkansas State Police shall make...
• § 21-15-108 - Exempted Employees.
  Any person who submits evidence of having maintained employment in the State of Arkansas for the past twelve (12) months and of successfully completing...
• § 21-15-109 - Immunity.
  Individuals and state agencies are immune from suit or liability for damages for acts or omissions, other than malicious acts or omissions, occurring in...
• § 21-15-110 - Notice to Employer.
  (a) If a state employee is determined to be an offender or perpetrator in a true, substantiated, or founded report of child maltreatment or...
• § 21-15-111 - Hiring New Employees Into Designated Financial or Information Technology Positions.
  (a) (1) (A) When a person applies for employment with a state agency in a designated financial or information technology position and if the...
• § 21-15-112 - Incumbent Employees in Designated Financial or Information Technology Positions.
  (a) (1) State agencies shall ensure that all employees in designated financial or information technology positions apply for criminal history checks by December 1,...
• § 21-15-113 - Waiver of Exclusion or Discharge Requirement for Persons in Designated Financial or Information Technology Positions.
  (a) (1) The provisions of §§ 21-15-111 and 21-15-112 prohibiting the hiring of a person or requiring the discharge of a person in a...

Last modified: November 15, 2016