2019 Maryland Code
Business Occupations and Professions
Title 20 - Private Home Detention
Subtitle 3 - Licensing
§ 20-305. Criminal history records checks

    (a)    In this section, “Central Repository” means the Criminal Justice Information System Central Repository of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.

    (b)    An applicant for a license under this title and an individual whose name must be submitted under § 20-303(c)(5) of this subtitle shall apply to the Central Repository for State and national criminal history records checks on a form approved by the Director of the Central Repository.

    (c)    For each individual applying for State and national criminal history records checks under subsection (b) of this section, the Central Repository shall:

        (1)    notify the Secretary of the receipt of the application for State and national criminal history records checks;

        (2)    process the State and national criminal history records checks and forward to the Secretary and the individual a printed statement listing the finding of a felony conviction; and

        (3)    process an update of the initial State criminal history records check and forward to the Secretary a revised printed statement listing the finding of a felony conviction for an offense occurring in the State after the date of the initial criminal history records check.

    (d)    An individual applying for State and national criminal history records checks shall submit to the Central Repository:

        (1)    a complete set of legible fingerprints taken at any designated State or local law enforcement office in the State or other location approved by the Secretary;

        (2)    the mandatory processing fee required by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal history records check; and

        (3)    the fee authorized under § 10-221(b)(7) of the Criminal Procedure Article for access to Maryland criminal history records.

    (e)    A private home detention monitoring agency or an applicant for a license to operate a private home detention monitoring agency may pay the fees required in subsection (d) of this section for an individual it intends to employ as a private home detention monitor.

    (f)    Information obtained by the Secretary under this section shall be confidential and may not:

        (1)    be used for any purpose other than that for which it was disseminated; and

        (2)    be redisseminated.