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i Orange County ABC Board Policy and Procedure Manual i a i Background & GFedi Checks i This policy is designed to ensure a safe workplace for employees and customers as well as ensure a final-applicants and employees are of the highest integrity and to provide formal guidance to all personnel who are responsible for arranging background checks. The following persons are subject to background checks: Applicants for employment: The background of all applicants making the final selection should be checked; finalists for full-time, part-time and temporary positions are to be treated the same. Current Employees: To ensure fairness, existing employees who are applying for a new position or promotion must be treated the same as outside applicants. Background checks should be run on all current employees who: ➢ Are applying for promotion and/or a new position. Ara s uspeGte d to have lion on an applinafinn I ➢ Report a criminal conviction. ➢ Are subject to a policy that provides for routine checking of specific information based on job necessity (such as a yearly check on employees driving Board vehicles). lE , Tomnr� ��n� Dnonn Employ if f r� r7r.nrani nl .menf aryeiase$ are iicorl if is the j i Board must speGify in the r.E)ntraGt the types of baGkgrouRd c;heGks that should be performed fGF eaeh job. The agenGy should retain the documents so the iRfaffnation I I does n me subject to fho_ ihlin Record Ant d-e�,e�beEeTTT.��jccr-ry crt��ao�Trc-r-[cv�ra'��t'cr. limited In their duties and are: (a) not entrusted with the assets of the Board and (b) do not past a-th-Feato the ser.WFity efti'�'-Tryployees-er-eu-stOTmers. Policy: se!eGted for employment into any positien; and also, tO Genduct background Gheeks as �oodoeJ nn ni..._._e—Pl .ye s inGl irded in paragraph above i Consistency is extremely important. All applicants and employees must be treated the same; and all persons in the same or similar job must be treated as alike as possible. i Final applicants and employees are not to undergo extra screening because of that person's race, gender, religion, national origin, or other characteristic protected by anti-discrimination laws. Also, background checks that tend to disqualify a disproportionate amount of applicants who belong to a protected class are prohibited unless the check is job-related and a business necessity. Information may be obtained from public sources without prior notification to an applicant- finalist or employee; however, no adverse action is to be taken without verification of the information obtained. 3-3 1/18/2019