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Welcome to the Pennsylvania Department
of Public Welfare’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Background
Clearance Page. The purpose of this page is to ensure
individuals are aware of Act 73 of 2007 which was signed by Governor Edward
G. Rendell on December 18, 2007. Act
73 amended Title 23, The law also requires
that as of July 1, 2008, any prospective employee of a child care service, person seeking to operate child care services, individuals applying for
employment with a significant likelihood of regular contact with children, self-employed
family day care provider and family day care home household member age 18 and
over, as well as
Community Rehabilitation Residential ( FEDERAL (FBI) CRIMINAL HISTORY REPORT Fee: $36.00 Money orders are made payable to Cogent Systems. No cash, personal or business checks are accepted at print
locations Payment may be made online at www.pa.cogentid.com The fingerprint-based
background check is a multiple-step process: Registration is available
online 24 hours/day, seven days per week at www.pa.cogentid.com.
Telephonic registration
is available at 1-888-439-2486 Monday through Friday, 8am to 6pm
EST. During the registration process, all demographic data for
the applicant is collected (name, address, SSN, etc.) there is no data
entry required at the fingerprint collection site.
a. Cogent Systems will also establish a billing procedure for these
services from an appropriate requesting agency that is willing to pay the
applicant’s fee. Billing may only occur after the requesting agency has
completed the Cogent Systems’ Agency Pay Agreement. To establish a
billing account visit the website www.pa.cogentid.com
and download an application. The billing account must be established
prior to sending applicants to the fingerprint site. 3. The
applicant proceeds to the fingerprint site of their choice for
fingerprinting. The location of the fingerprint sites and days and
hours of operation for each site will be posted on Cogent Systems’ website at
www.pa.cogentid.com.
The location of 4. At the
fingerprint site the Applicant Livescan Operators ( Do not
contact Cogent Systems or the fingerprint site after your fingerprints have
been submitted. Cogent Systems does
not have the means to give the applicant the status of their background
check. Complete processing
of their results should take no longer than 4 – 6 weeks. If the applicant does not receive their
results from 9. The
applicant will then provide the Federal Criminal History Record to their
prospective employer. In circumstances where a classifiable
fingerprint record was not or cannot be obtained and immediately upon
indication, Cogent Systems will take corrective action to re-submit, or
re-print the applicant at no cost to the applicant. This corrective
action will be completed at the earliest possible time, and when applicable,
that is convenient for the applicant. Cogent Systems will contact the
applicant directly should this occur. NOTE: Reprinting can be
applied to each applicant one time only. If fingerprinting must take
place a third time the applicant must pay the full fee. Group
Fingerprinting Support Some, not all,
fingerprint service sites have the ability to bring portable equipment to
your site. If you are in need of Group Fingerprinting Support, visit www.pa.cogentid.com.
Service sites in your area that have mobile equipment will be listed.
NOTE: We encourage you
to utilize this service but you must plan ahead. Please do not
overwhelm the service by sending large groups of applicants to the fixed site
locations. If you must send your large group of applicants to a fixed
site, please plan for their arrival to occur over days and weeks, not over
hours. Confidentiality
(Security) of Applicant Information On-site access to the
Livescan equipment, and the data traveling from the equipment, is
comprehensively secured and regulated by both Cogent Systems and the
regulations governing the use of that data. The Computer System - The system will be housed within a secured network that is protected by firewall devices configured explicitly to allow only permissible protocols and traffic. Cogent Systems will ensure that all devices procured under this process continue to adhere to the Commonwealth’s Security requirements. The proposed systems will be configured to provide a point of defense with controlled access from both inside and outside the network. The Livescan systems will be configured to support logging and audit capability. Furthermore, the Livescan solution will support 128 bit encryption. Inquiries or
Questions All information regarding
process, policy, and fingerprinting locations may be found at www.pa.cogentid.com Fingerprint applicants
should contact (717) 783-6211. Do not
contact Cogent Systems or the fingerprint site after your fingerprints have
been submitted. Cogent Systems does
not have the means to give the applicant the status of their background
check. Complete processing
of their results should take no longer than 4 – 6 weeks. If the applicant does not receive their
results from Fingerprint Services
Sites should contact Blake Godard at bgodard@cogentsystems.com |