§ 35.056. DESIGNATION OF PERSONNEL AS CRITICAL TO SECURITY.

(A)

All departments designated herein as critical to security shall require that any person applying for, appointed to, contracted by or continuing employment in, any such department or in any such facility which is decided to be critical to security shall be fingerprinted in accordance with Section 166.0442, Fla. Stat. The fingerprints shall be submitted to the Department of Law Enforcement for a State criminal history record check and to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal history record check. The information obtained from the criminal history record checks conducted pursuant to the ordinance may be used by the City to determine an applicant's eligibility for employment or appointment and may determine the employee's eligibility for continued employment. Refusal to submit to fingerprinting and background checks may result in discipline up to and including termination of already existing employees or a decision not to hire new applicants.

(1)

Employees and applicants as well as all unescorted contractors and vendors and repair and delivery personnel who enter into the following divisions and departments, hereby designated as critical to security, shall be subjected to fingerprinting and background checks:

(a)

Police.

(b)

Management Information Systems.

(c)

Fire-Rescue.

(i)

Exemptions. Firefighters, Firefighter candidates, and Paramedics shall be governed by applicable fingerprint requirements as established by Chapters 401 and 633 of the Florida Statutes and/or other administrative rules attendant thereto; and with respect to new applicants, they may be subjected to administrative background investigations in addition to County, State and national criminal history checks which are now or may be established in the future by the Fire-Rescue Department.

(Ord. No. 12-03, § 1, passed 5/20/03; Ord. No. 1-03, § 1, passed 2/4/03; Ord. No. 34-02, § 1, passed 6/20/02)