This policy outlines the background check requirements and potential causes for denial of course enrollment due to prior criminal conviction.
Impact EMS Training has adopted a Criminal Conviction Policy for two primary purposes. The first purpose is to safeguard the public from individuals who, in practice as an EMS student, might pose a danger to the public. The second purpose is to protect the student from taking a course if they are not eligible to sit for the National Registry of EMT (NREMT) exams due to an existing conviction problem. As such, Impact EMS will work with individual students to identify if their prior convictions will place them in the position of not being eligible to test with the NREMT. Students who are not eligible to test with the NREMT will not be eligible to enroll in Impact EMS courses.
Impact EMS may deny an applicant eligibility to enroll in a course based on an applicant’s felony criminal convictions and all other criminal convictions (whether felony or misdemeanor) relating to crimes involving physical assault, use of a dangerous weapon, sexual abuse or assault, abuse of children, the elderly or infirm and crimes against property, including robbery, burglary and felony theft. All applicants must disclose any criminal conviction as required on the application.
This policy applies to an applicant’s plea of nolo contendere, a guilty plea or plea agreement, and a conviction after trial. Applicants are not required to disclose any criminal conviction that has been expunged from the public record or a deferred adjudication that did not result in the entry of a conviction judgment.
Failure to disclose a covered criminal conviction or withhold any material information regarding such conviction shall be an independent basis for denial of the application.