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Child Welfare Criminal History Background Checks
Service Information
Oklahoma statutes (Title 10 O. S. Section 7209A) mandate that a national criminal history records search, based upon submission of fingerprints of all adults living in the home, be run on all public and private child placing agency foster care applicants. This applies to all foster parent applicants (and anyone over the age of 18, living in the foster parent's home) with Child Welfare, DDSD, OJA, private child placing agencies, and tribal foster parent applicants who will be serving custody children.
Oklahoma statutes (Title 10 O. S. Section 7505-5.3A) mandate the same as above for all public agency and private adoptive applicants. The mandate applies to adoptive parent applicants (and anyone over the age of 18 living in the adoptive parents' home) through OKDHS, private child placing agencies, tribal and private attorneys.
OKDHS was designated as the lead agency responsible for facilitating this process with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) (Link opens in new window) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (Link opens in new window).
Two types of criminal history background checks are processed:
Both types of background check requests include a search of the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety (DPS) (Link opens in new window) driving records and the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (DOC) (Link opens in new window) sex offender registry files.
Online Services
Frequently Asked Questions
Contact Information
Deborah King
Supervisor
Contact by e-mail
Phone:
(405) 522-3857
Fax: (405) 522-3846
Kelley Building
2409 N. Kelley Ave.
Oklahoma City, OK 73111
Mailing Address:
Children and Family Services Division
Administrative Services Unit
Fingerprint & Background Check Section
P. O. Box 25352
Oklahoma City, OK 73125
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