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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 3647 STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) RESOLUTION NO. 3647 COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE ) ss. CITY OF SAN JACINTO ) A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN JACINTO, CALIFORNIA, AUTHORIZING USE OF LIVE SCAN TECHNOLOGY TO ASSIST THE CITY IN IMPLEMENTING ITS RESIDENTIAL INDOOR MARIJUANA CULTIVATION AND COMMERCIAL MARIJUANA CULTIVATION PERMITTING REGULATIONS WHEREAS, the City of San Jacinto, California (the "City") is a municipal corporation, duly organized under the constitution and laws of the state of California; and WHEREAS, Penal Code Sections 11105(b)(11) and 13300(b)(11) authorize cities, counties, districts, and joint powers authorities to access state and local summary criminal history information for employment, licensing or certification purposes; and WHEREAS, Penal Code Sections 11105(b)(11) authorizes cities, counties, districts and joint powers authorities to access federal level criminal history information by transmitting fingerprint images and related information to the Department of Justice to be transmitted to the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and WHEREAS, Penal Code Sections 11105(b)(11) and 13300(b)(11) require that there be a requirement or exclusion from employment, licensing, or certification based on specific criminal conduct on the part of the subject of the record; and WHEREAS, Penal Code Sections 11105(b)(11) and 13300(b)(11) require the city council, board of supervisors, governing body of a city, county, or district or joint powers authority to specifically authorize access to summary criminal history information for employment, licensing, or certification purposes; and WHEREAS, the information is required to implement Ordinance No. 16- 10, which expressly identifies specific criminal conduct and contains requirements or exclusions based upon that specified criminal conduct; and WHEREAS, the City would utilize this data to implement the Residential Indoor Marijuana Cultivation and Commercial Marijuana Cultivation permitting schema contemplated in Ordinance No. 16-10 by determining whether applicants had been convicted of illegal possession for sale, manufacture, transportation, or cultivation of a controlled substance within the last five years or the last ten years, depending on the permit for which they have applied; and 1 WHEREAS, such convictions would render an applicant ineligible for a Residential Indoor Marijuana Cultivation Permit and/or a Commercial Marijuana Cultivation Permit due to the risk to the public health, safety, and welfare inherent in allowing an individual with those recent convictions to cultivate and potentially distribute marijuana or marijuana products. NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN JACINTO, CALIFORNIA, DOES HEREBY RESOLVE, DECLARE, DETERMINE AND ORDER AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Recitals. The City Council of the City of San Jacinto hereby finds and determines that the foregoing recitals are true and correct, are incorporated herein and by this reference made an operative part hereof. SECTION 2. Access to State and Federal Background Information for Residential Indoor Marijuana Cultivation Permit. The City, and all necessary employees, are hereby authorized to access state and federal level summary criminal history information for any applicant for a Residential Indoor Marijuana Cultivation Permit to determine whether they have been convicted of illegal possession for sale, manufacture, transportation, or cultivation of a controlled substance within the last five years. Access to criminal history information is limited to these purposes and no employee may disseminate the information to a private entity. SECTION 3. Access to State and Federal Background Information for Commercial Marijuana Cultivation Permit. The City, and all necessary employees, are hereby authorized to access state and federal level summary criminal history information for any applicant for a Commercial Marijuana Cultivation Permit to determine whether they have been convicted of illegal possession for sale, manufacture, transportation, or cultivation of a controlled substance within the last ten years. Access to criminal history information is limited to these purposes and no employee may disseminate the information to a private entity. SECTION 4. Severability. If any provision of this Resolution or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the Resolution which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this Resolution are severable. The City Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this Resolution irrespective of the invalidity of any particular portion thereof. SECTION 5. Effective Date of Resolution. This Resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption. PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 3rd day of January, 2017 by the following vote: AYES: Kotyuk, Ledezma, Ruiz, Utz, Miller NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None City of San Jacinto: &4)OA /S'c—oftVillei, Mayor ATTEST: A el alto ", Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM: BEST PEST & KRIEGER '4, l �.- Je rey S. allinger, City Attorney 3 CERTIFICATION I, Angela Walton, City Clerk of the City of San Jacinto do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution No. 3647 duly adopted by the City Council of the City of San Jacinto at a regular meeting thereof, held on the 3rd day of January, 2017, by the following vote of Council: AYES: Kotyuk, Ledezma, Ruiz, Utz, Miller NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None loAa alton 4