Salt Lake Tribune - Background check in criminal database will be worth the cost, city officials say: "Finalists for jobs with the city of Boise will soon be fingerprinted and checked in a nationwide criminal database.
The program is expected to begin in the first few months of 2007.
''We feel it's a good investment,'' Shawn Miller, Boise's human resources director, told the Idaho Statesman. ''It's one more piece of information so we can make a good employment decision.''
The city hires about 150 employees and 500 seasonal workers each year, Miller said. Each fingerprint search will cost $34, and the equipment used to get the digital fingerprints costs $19,000.
Miller said the digital equipment saves money because it is more efficient.
The city already requires fingerprint checks for jobs with the police, fire department and airport security. The new system will cover other employees, who previously went through a self-disclosure system that wasn't as thorough.
''If you are a criminal and you applied for a position with us and you didn't tell us you lived in Oklahoma, we wouldn't know that,'' Miller said. "
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