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6 <br /> <br /> <br />position with the City or the Permit Holder held or applied for by the individual. The City <br />will comply, and requires Permit Holders to comply, with all applicable laws regarding <br />background screening. <br /> <br />Written (or appropriate electronic) consent must be obtained from each individual who is <br />proposed for a background check by the City or Permit Holder. The City will pay the <br />Background Check fee for its own employment applicants, employees, and volunteers and <br />volunteer applicants, but not for those background checks requested by Permit Holders in <br />compliance with this policy. <br /> <br />An appropriate notice of rights must be provided to all such individuals, including notice of <br />his or her right to initiate a dispute with the City’s Background Screening Provider over the <br />content of such background check in certain circumstances and to be provided with a copy <br />of any background report relied on by the City or the Permit Holder to disqualify the <br />individual from participation or employment with the City or Permit Holder. <br /> <br />Any individual failing a City-prescribed background screening shall not be considered or <br />screened for any position or participation with the City or Permit Holder to which this <br />policy applies for one year from the date of the failed screen’s having been conducted. <br /> <br />Frequency <br />Each individual required by this policy to be screened shall have a duty to self-report <br />immediately to the City or Permit Holder (as the case may be) any subsequent conviction or <br />other event for which a background screen was conducted at the outset of their <br />employment or participation. <br /> <br />In addition, each person to whom this policy applies shall be subject to re-screening every <br />two years, or at such other interval as the City may from time to time determine in its <br />discretion. <br /> <br />The Screening Process <br />The Parks and Recreation Director shall prescribe procedures for conducting background <br />checks using the City’s electronic database and software. The guiding principles and <br />standards for such procedures are set forth below. <br /> <br />The Parks and Recreation Director shall prescribe to the Screening Provider the particular <br />background data to be considered for each particular position and the requirements for <br />passing the screening. Background check reports will be delivered by the Provider on a pass- <br />fail basis only into this database and will be secured with access limited as set by the Parks and <br />Recreation Director or his/her designee for each particular context in which backgrounds <br />checks are to be conducted. <br /> <br />An individual who does not pass the background screening shall be given required notices <br />relative thereto in accordance with the federal and state Fair Credit Reporting Acts, <br />including but not necessarily limited to a copy of the “Summary of Your Rights under the <br />Fair Credit Reporting Act”, notification that the individual is disqualified from employment <br />or participation, and information on how to dispute the results of the screening.