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