2021 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
Title 15 - Criminal Procedure
§587.3. Volunteers and employees in youth-serving institutions or organizations; other youth coaches; criminal background information
RS 587.3 - Volunteers and employees in youth-serving institutions or organizations; other youth coaches; criminal background information
A.(1) A religious, charitable, scientific, educational, athletic, or youth-serving institution or organization may require any person who applies to work with children as a volunteer or as a paid employee to do the following:
(a) Agree to release all investigative records to such religious, charitable, scientific, educational, athletic, or youth-service institution or organization for examination for the purpose of verifying the accuracy of criminal violation information contained on an application to work for such institution or organization.
(b) Supply fingerprint samples and submit to a criminal history records check to be conducted by the Louisiana Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information.
(2) Any head coach of youth athletes in an organized sports or recreational athletic contest, not as part of a religious, charitable, scientific, educational, athletic, or youth-serving institution or organization to which Paragraph (1) of this Subsection would apply and is not a parent of the child, legal guardian of the child, or is otherwise not a family member of the child, shall do the following:
(a) Agree to release all investigative records for examination for the purpose of verifying the accuracy of criminal violation information.
(b) Supply fingerprint samples and submit to a criminal history records check to be conducted by the Louisiana Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information.
(c) Make available criminal history record information.
B. In addition to Subsection A of this Section, any volunteer, paid employee, or head coach may be required to attend a comprehensive youth protection training program which includes adult training on recognition, disclosure, reporting, and prevention of abuse and submit to character, employment, education, and reference checks.
C. Any person who is requested to comply with the requirements set forth in Subsection A of this Section, and refuses to do so, shall be prohibited from working with children as a volunteer or as a paid employee.
D. When a criminal history records check is requested pursuant to Subsection A of this Section, the Louisiana Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information shall provide the requestor with the state criminal history record information of the individual subject to the inquiry. In addition, the bureau shall forward the fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal history records check and shall provide the requestor with the national criminal history record information of the individual subject to the inquiry.
E.(1) The costs of providing the information required under this Section shall be charged by the bureau, as specified in R.S. 15:587(B), to the individual subject to the inquiry for furnishing information contained in the bureau's criminal history and identification files, including any additional costs of providing the national criminal history records check which pertains to the individual.
(2) Notwithstanding Paragraph (1) of this Subsection, for paid employees of a youth-serving institution or organization, the costs of providing the information required under this Section shall be charged by the bureau, as specified in R.S. 15:587(B), to the institution or organization.
Acts 1999, No. 816, §1; Acts 2019, No. 143, §1.
