(a) As authorized by F.S. § 166.0442, any individual who is currently being employed, is seeking employment, or is to be appointed to a position of municipal employment or appointment which the city finds is critical to security or public safety shall be subject to employment screening. The employment screening process shall require that each person applying for, or continuing employment in any such position, or having access to any such facility, be fingerprinted. The city shall submit the fingerprints to the Florida 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 this section may be used to determine an applicant's eligibility for employment or appointment and to determine an employee's eligibility for continued employment. The fingerprinting and associated criminal history record checks shall be in addition to any other background screening which the city may lawfully undertake.
(b) As authorized by F.S. § 166.0442, any private contractor, any employee of a private contractor, vendor, repair person, or delivery person who has access to any public facility or publicly operated facility that the City Commission finds is critical to security or public safety shall be subject to employment screening as described in paragraph (a) above. The employment screening process shall require that each person having access to any such facility be fingerprinted. The costs of such employment screening pursuant to this section shall be borne by the contractor, vendor, repair person, or delivery person.
(c) The positions of municipal employment and appointment that are critical to security or public safety are listed in Exhibit "A" of Ordinance 03-053.
(d) The public facilities and publicly operated facilities that are critical to security or public safety are listed in Exhibit "B" of Ordinance 03-053.
(Ord. No. 03-053, §§ 2—4, 10-7-03)