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BOOK 21 ME County of Lee Ordinance Requiring a Criminal History Background Check Of All Applicants for Lee County Government Positions BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Commissioners of the County of Lee In an effort to protect Lee County from possible conduct which might be detrimental to the County or its property, any person about whom the Sheriff has reliable information that said person has been convicted of a crime set out in Subchapter IV, Offenses against the Habitation and Other Buildings and Subchapter V, Offenses Against Property of Chapter 14, Criminal Laws of the North Carolina General Statutes shall not be offered employment with the County. In an effort to protect the County from conduct which might be detrimental to the individuals served by the County, no person about whom the Sheriff has reliable information that said person has been convicted of a crime set out in the following Subchapters of Chapter 14, Criminal Law of the North Carolina General Statutes: II. Offenses against the State; III. Offenses against the Person; VII. Offenses against Public Morality and Decency shall not be offered employment with the County in any position. Further, no individual who volunteers to participate in any youth sport, youth activity or program sponsored by the County shall be approved as a volunteer if known by the Sheriff to have been convicted of any misdemeanor or felony crimes listed in this paragraph. In making a determination as to qualification for employment of persons about whom the Sheriff has reliable information that said person has been convicted of a misdemeanor, the County may consider the following: length of time since conviction, nature of the crime, circumstances surrounding the commission of the offense or offenses, evidence of rehabilitation, number of prior convictions, and age of the person at the time of occurrence. In the event of a vacancy occurring in any County position, the Human Resources Director shall require any final applicant for the position to provide fingerprints and/or all other necessary personal identification in order that the Sheriff or his designee might cause a thorough search to be made of local and state criminal history records to determine if the applicant has a history involving criminal conviction for any of the crimes enumerated in the previous paragraphs of this article. The Sheriff or his designee shall cause a check for state criminal history records be made of all final applicants for any county position including volunteer positions. The Sheriff shall cause all records to be forwarded to the Human Resources Director. In the event that the Human Resources Director and the County Attorney find that a final applicant for a position has a criminal history involving a conviction for one of the crimes in this article, the applicant shall be provided the opportunity to challenge the accuracy of the information. Having done so, the Human Resources Director shall indicate to the County Manager in writing whether or not the particular applicant for the position is approved If the applicant is not approved, the Human Resources Director shall eliminate the particular applicant from further consideration, this the thirteenth day of August, 2007. Robert H. Brown, Chairman Lee County Board of Commissioners Clerk to the