Kansas Mentors

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Records Checks
Mentoring programs registered with Kansas Mentors can now receive state and federal records checks free of charge. Below is procedure for how to access these records checks.
  1. Mentors applicants are required to go to their nearest participating Law Enforcement Agency* to have their fingerprints taken to volunteer with a qualified mentoring organization**. Some law enforcement agencies may require an additional charge for fingerprinting.
     
  2. Mentors applicants’ responsibilities:

    • Read the volunteer notice and complete the volunteer application.
       Volunteer notice  &   Volunteer application
    • Applicants should call their nearest participating law enforcement agency to schedule an appointment for taking the fingerprints. Applicants also should inquire about any charges that may apply to process the fingerprints.
    • Provide appropriate identification to be photocopied by the law enforcement agency. (i.e., a driver’s license, state-issued identification card, etc.)
    • Stamped 9-by-12-inch envelope. (Postage currently $1.)

    • Address the envelope to:
      Captain Art Wilburn
      Kansas Highway Patrol
      General Headquarters
      122 SW 7th Street
      Topeka, KS  66603

    • Use Kansas Mentors for the return address:
      Kansas Mentors
      1000 SW Jackson, Ste 570
      Topeka, KS  66612

      Please limit one applicant’s information per envelope.
  3. Law enforcement agencies’ responsibilities:

    • Obtain and photocopy identification from the applicant.
    • Fill out the fingerprint card, and fingerprint the Mentors applicant. (The Kansas Highway Patrol (KHP) will provide Law Enforcement Agencies with fingerprint cards from the FBI.)
    • Place the photocopied identification, fingerprint card, and volunteer application in the applicant provided addressed/stamped envelope and seal it.
    • Law enforcement agency officials shall mail the applicant envelope.
  4. Upon receipt of the applicant envelope, the KHP will submit the fingerprints to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI), the KBI and KHP will conduct criminal history checks. The KBI will forward the fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for a criminal history check. The FBI and KBI will forward the results of their criminal history checks to the KHP, and the KHP will make a fitness determination based on criteria contained in the Mentor’s Volunteer Notice.

  5. Upon receipt of the criminal history checks and the fitness determination, the KHP will e-mail the qualified mentoring organization with an applicant’s fitness determination. The organization is responsible for notifying the applicant of the determination. The applicant may contact Captain Art Wilburn at the Kansas Highway Patrol to learn how to appeal a result that disqualified him/her from volunteering.
    * List of participating law enforcement agencies. For a complete list of qualified organizations, click here.

    ** Qualified mentoring organizations include those that have registered with the Kansas Mentors Program. Registered mentoring programs are those listed as partners on Kansas Mentors web site. To register your program, click here.

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