Background Check Requirements

Kinship Place is responsible for verifying that direct service staff passes a criminal history and registry misconduct check. TAC Title 25 Part 1, Chapter 414 Subchapter K Rule 414.504 is referenced when verifying the employability status of staff.

The following convictions of criminal offenses constitutes ABSOLUTE LIFETIME bar from employment:

1. Criminal homicide (Penal Code, Chapter 19)

2. Kidnapping and unlawful restraint (Penal Code, Chapter 20)

3. Indecency with a child (Penal Code, Section 21.11)

4. Sexual assault (Penal Code, Section 22.011)

5. Aggravated assault (Penal Code, Section 22.02)

6. Injury to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual (Penal Code, Section 22.04)

7. Abandoning or endangering a child (Penal Code, 22.041)

8. Aiding suicide (Penal Code, 22.08)

9. Agreement to abduct from custody (Penal Code. Section 25. 031)

10. Sale or purchase of a child (Penal Code, Section 25.08)

11. Arson (Penal Code, Section 28.02)

12. Robbery (Penal Code, Section 29.02)

13. Aggravated Robbery (Penal Code, Section 29.03)

14. A conviction under the laws of another state, federal low, or the Uniform Code of Military Justice for an offense containing elements that are substantially similar to the elements of an offense listed above

A conviction which occurred within the PREVIOUS 5 YEARS for the following conviction are not allow for employment:

(A) Assault that is punishable as a Class A misdemeanor or as a felony (Penal Code, Section 22.01)

(B) Burglary ( Penal Code, Section 30.03)

(D) Misapplication of fiduciary property or property of a financial institution that is punishable as a Class A misdemeanor or felony (Penal Code, Section 32.45)

(E) Securing execution of a document by deception that is punishable as a Class A misdemeanor or a felony (Penal Code, Section 32.46)