Walt Quering, whose division does background checks on applicants for child care licenses and, when questions arise, applicants for work cards. Most of the time, the lies are not sufficient to go back through the revocation process. Those who apply for a child care work card are required to list their arrests and convictions. Sometimes the applicants lie and, at least temporarily, get away with it. Police issue work cards on the spot, but the FBI background checks based on fingerprints take 90 days on average and sometimes take up to a year to complete.
Police check arrests and convictions in Southern Nevada using a local computer database.
Of course, we don't like it. We're stuck with it. One applicant failed to list an arrest and conviction in 1976 for lewd and lascivious acts against children, Quering said. Police issued a work card to the man, who was hired by a day care center. After receiving the FBI's background check, Las Vegas police revoked his card.