Sec. 29-17a. Criminal history records checks. Procedure. Fees.
Sec. 29-17a. Criminal history records checks. Procedure. Fees. (a) If a criminal
history records check is required pursuant to any provision of the general statutes, such
check shall be requested from the State Police Bureau of Identification and shall be
applicable to the individual identified in the request. The requesting party shall arrange
for the fingerprinting of the individual or for conducting any other method of positive
identification required by the State Police Bureau of Identification and, if a national
criminal history records check is requested, by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The
fingerprints or other positive identifying information shall be forwarded to the State
Police Bureau of Identification which shall conduct a state criminal history records
check. If a national criminal history records check is requested, the State Police Bureau
of Identification shall submit the fingerprints or other positive identifying information
to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal history records check,
unless the Federal Bureau of Investigation permits direct submission of the fingerprints
or other positive identifying information by the requesting party.
(b) The Commissioner of Public Safety may charge fees for conducting criminal
history background checks as follows:
(1) Except as provided in subdivision (2) of this subsection, for a person requesting
(A) a state criminal history records check, the fee charged by the Department of Public
Safety for performing such check, and (B) a national criminal history records check,
the fee charged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for performing such check.
(2) For a state agency requesting a national criminal history records check of a
person, the fee charged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for performing such
check. The state agency shall reimburse the Department of Public Safety for such cost.
Unless otherwise provided by the provision of the general statutes requiring the criminal
history records check, the state agency may charge the person a fee equal to the amount
paid by the state agency under this subdivision.
(c) The Commissioner of Public Safety may provide an expedited service for persons requesting criminal history records checks in accordance with this section. Such
expedited service shall include making the results of such records checks available to
the requesting party through the Internet. The commissioner may enter into a contract
with any person, firm or corporation to establish and administer such expedited service.
The commissioner shall charge, in addition to the fees charged pursuant to subsection
(b) of this section, a fee of twenty-five dollars for each expedited criminal history record
check provided. The fee charged pursuant to subsection (b) of this section and the expedited service fee charged pursuant to this subsection shall be paid by the requesting
party in such manner as may be required by the commissioner.
(P.A. 01-175, S. 31, 32; P.A. 05-267, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 01-175 effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 05-267 added Subsec. (c) re expedited service.
See Secs. 10-221d, 12-559, 12-578, 12-586f, 12-586g, 12-815a, 14-44, 17a-151, 17b-749k, 17b-750, 18-81l, 19a-80,
19a-87b, 19a-491b, 21-40, 21-100, 22a-6m, 29-29, 29-36g, 29-145, 29-152f, 29-155, 29-156a, 29-349, and 38a-660 re
using criminal history records checks in accordance with Sec. 29-17a.
See Sec. 17a-6a re criminal history records checks for applicants for positions with the Department of Children and
Families.
See Sec. 17a-114 re criminal history records checks for persons sixteen years of age or older living in household of
child placement applicant.