​​​​​​​​​​​All adult parish volunteers in the archdiocese who have regular contact with minors must be fingerprinted under the California Penal Code. The fingerprints are submitted to the California Department of Justice. Fingerprint reports and any subsequent arrest notifications are overseen by the archdiocesan Fingerprint​ing Office​ ​as the confidential reporter of criminal offender record information (CORI reporter) and the Office of Legal Counsel​​.  

The archdiocesan policy is to fingerprint adults, not minors. Under state​ ​law, people who are under 18 years old should not be fingerprinted. Therefore, any minors who volunteer to work with other minors need to be supervised at all times by an adult who has been fingerprinted and has completed VIRTUS® training​; the minor volunteer should not work alone with other minors. 

Adult parish volunteers who are not fingerprinted may only work with other adults and may not have regular contact with minors in any volunteer activity.

7-20-21, 9-23-21​