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SBEC AND TEA UTILIZE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY’S FAST PROGRAM FOR COLLECTION OF FINGERPRINTS

As many of you know the Department of Public Safety (DPS) entered into a contract with a private vendor (L-1 Enrollment Services) to provide a digital fingerprinting service to those individuals that require fingerprinting for state licensing purposes in Texas such as applicants for educator credentials or anyone subject to fingerprinting for the purpose of Senate Bill 9 (SB9). This includes applicants for educator credentials. The program is known as Fingerprint Applicant Services of Texas (FAST) and was implemented statewide in the Spring of 2006. We wish to encourage applicants to use this service. SBEC began using the FAST program on June 7, 2006, at 5:00 p.m.

Since October 1, 2003 new applicants for educator credentials have been required to submit fingerprints to the State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC) so that a national criminal background check can be conducted by the FBI. Many of these fingerprints have been in the form of the conventional inked and rolled method, that are routed to DPS and the FBI through SBEC. There have been many problems associated with this process that center around the quality of the prints obtained by this method (a rejection rate for quality of 25%) and cards being lost in the mail. These delays have caused numerous problems for all parties involved. It is our belief that by utilizing the DPS’ contractor (L-1 Enrollment Services), the fingerprint process will vastly improve, resulting in a much shorter amount of time required for an applicant to complete the fingerprint process.

A few facts about the digital fingerprint process:

  • SBEC cannot require that a NEW applicant use the DPS vendor, but strongly encourages them to do so (Individuals subject to fingerprinting for SB9 purposes must use the digital method).
  • SBEC will require all applicants that choose to use the vendor to pay their fingerprinting fees online.
  • The applicant will be required to pay their fingerprint fees (online) prior to being able to use the vendor’s digital services.
  • The applicant will receive an email from SBEC that will contain a document (FAST Fingerprint Pass) that will allow them to use the vendor’s digital services.
  • The applicant will be required to make an appointment with the vendor and present the document (FAST Fingerprint Pass) at their fingerprint appointment.
  • Applicants will be required to pay the vendor a fee of $9.95 for the fingerprinting service. (Note: Only Texas locations can be utilized.)
  • The rejection rate guaranteed by the vendor is 2% as opposed to the 25% rejection rate for inked and rolled prints.
  • The average turn around time for completion of the digital fingerprint process are 3-5 business days as compared to the average turnaround time of 7-14 business days currently being experienced by the Fingerprint Division for inked and rolled fingerprints.
  • The service is offered at over 70 locations currently with additional sites anticipated. For a list of current sites go to: http://www.L1enrollment.com/