Barriers and Solutions to Implementing CCDBG Act Interstate Background Check Requirements

This research highlight summarizes findings from a study on the barriers states encounter when implementing the interstate background checks. Some states have implemented their own solutions and suggest ideas for tools, resources, guidance, and policy change that would support continued implementation of these requirements.

Many states have implemented their own solutions or shared their ideas about potential solutions related to the following barriers: legal restrictions, limited staff, difficulties with payment of fees, poor data quality and incomplete records, lack of transparent state and registry processes, inconsistent definitions and policies, and non-response to interstate requests. In addition, new national resources and requirements have been developed in response to the states’ challenges with the interstate background check requirements of the CCDBG Act of 2014.

CCEEPRA Research Translation (2022). Barriers and solutions to implementing CCDBG Act interstate background check requirements. OPRE Report #2022-176. Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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