Tribal Entity Emergency Child Welfare Criminal History Check

Under existing law, a county department of human or social services and a local law enforcement agency are authorized to conduct certain fingerprint-based criminal history record checks related to emergency child welfare placements and receive records related to those record checks. The bill includes a department or division of human or social services of an Indian tribe in the definition of county department and includes a law enforcement agency of an Indian tribe in the definition of local law enforcement agency for the purpose of conducting, and receiving records related to, fingerprint-based criminal history record checks related to emergency child welfare placements.

(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)