[Faculty] Academic Hires Misconduct Disclosure Requirement Campus Updates

[Academic Personnel Office]

*Date:     *May 14, 2025

*To: *        FACULTY, DEANS’ ACADEMIC PERSONNEL STAFF AND CFAOS

*From: *   DAN JESKE, VICE PROVOST FOR ACADEMIC PERSONNEL

               ACADEMIC PERSONNEL OFFICE

*Re: *       *Academic Hires Misconduct Disclosure Requirement
Campus Updates*



On Friday, December 20, 2024, I sent communication about California State
Laws (SB 791 and AB 810) that requires final job applicants to disclose
final administrative or judicial decisions issued within the last seven
years related to misconduct effective January 01, 2025.  The purpose of
this communication is to provide an update regarding new guidance recieved
(dated March 31, 2025) from Deputy Provost Amy K. Lee, Systemwide Academic
Personnel, and interim Vice Provost Douglas M. Hayes, Faculty Affairs and
Academic Programs, to revise guidance and template forms *effective April
18, 2025*.  These changes are in response to further review of SB 791 and
AB 810 and additional feedback received from key stakeholders after the
systemwide implementation effective January 1, 2025. The primary change is
that the misconduct questionnaire now only inquires about substantiated
misconduct.

The second purpose of this communication is to update you regarding the
campus implementation of *Truescreen* (deployed on March 18, 2025), which
is the vendor administering the Misconduct Disclosure Questionnaire and
Authorization Release Forms for all candidates applying for academic
employee positions (including graduate students). Departmental hiring units
Staff and Dean’s Staff have been advised of this deployment and they have
been sending notifications to candidates to complete the Misconduct
Disclosure Questionnaire and/or the Employer Authorization Release Forms.
The departmental hiring units are able to verify status of the completion
of these questionnaires.

*Please note: *Truescreen is not performing criminal background checks or
credit checks. They are only collecting the responses received, updating
questionnaire status in Truescreen’s dashboard and sending notifications to
the hiring department or Dean’s Staff user.

Lastly, this process includes graduate student employees. Attached is the
communication the graduate students received. The hiring departments should
be informing the graduate students to look for emails received from
Truescreen so they are aware of the email’s purpose. For additional
detailed information, please refer to the Misconduct and Background Check
website located *here*
<https://academicpersonnel.ucr.edu/recruitment-and-appointment#misconduct-and-background-chec>
*.*

If there are additional questions which are not addressed in these
resources, please send questions to academicpersonnel at ucr.edu.

Sincerely,


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Dan Jeske

Vice Provost for Academic Personnel


cc:

Elizabeth Watkins, Provost and Executive Vice President

Lorena Penaloza, Chief Campus Counsel

Kiersten Boyce, Chief Compliance Officer

Philip Brisk, Vice Provost of Administrative Resolution

Lidia Kos, Vice Provost & Dean of Graduate Studies

Alex Najera, Associate Vice Chancellor & Chief Human Resource Officer

Ken Baerenklau, Associate Provost & Chief of Staff

Katina Napper, Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Personnel

Academic Senate Office



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