What is a deemed employee and do they need to be fingerprinted?
A deemed employee of a voluntary agency is an employee of a contractor with the voluntary agency, or an individual contractor, who will have regular and substantial unsupervised or unrestricted physical contact with people receiving services. If the contractor is a registered provider or is another voluntary agency, the registered provider or other voluntary agency will be submitting the required requests and complying with the criminal history record check requirements, and the employee is not a deemed employee. Voluntary agencies are responsible for submitting criminal history record check requests for deemed employees. DDSOs do not have deemed employees. However, other mechanisms are used to request checks for employees of DDSO contractors (see question 16).
