7-127. Applicants for admission to practice law; fingerprints; criminal history record check. - Kansas Statutes

7-127

Chapter 7.--ATTORNEYS AT LAW Article 1.--GENERAL PROVISIONS

      7-127.   Applicants for admission to practice law; fingerprints; criminal history record check. (a) The supreme court may require an applicant for admission to practice law in this state to be fingerprinted and submit to a national criminal history record check. The fingerprints shall be used to identify the applicant and to determine whether the applicant has a record of criminal arrests and convictions in this state or other jurisdictions. The supreme court and the state board of law examiners are authorized to submit the fingerprints to the Kansas bureau of investigation and the federal bureau of investigation for a state and national criminal history record check. The state board of law examiners and the supreme court may use the information obtained from fingerprinting and the applicant's criminal history only for purposes of verifying the identification of any applicant and in the official determination of character and fitness of the applicant for admission to practice law in this state.

      (b)   Local and state law enforcement officers and agencies shall assist the supreme court in taking and processing of fingerprints of applicants seeking admission to practice law in this state and shall release all records of an applicant's arrests and convictions to the supreme court and the state board of law examiners.

      History:   L. 2005, ch. 197, § 1; July 1.