Kentucky Revised Statutes Title XVII. Economic Security and Public Welfare § 199.462.Criminal background investigation of applicant to provide foster care, relative caregiver services, fictive kin placement, or adoptive home, and of applicant's adult household members; request for conviction information; form and fee for request; background investigation at annual reevaluation authorized; administrative regulation; rap back system

(a) Require a criminal background investigation of the applicant and any of the applicant's adult household members by means of a fingerprint check by the Department of Kentucky State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation; or

(b) Request from the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet records of all conviction information for the applicant and any of the applicant's adult household members. The Justice and Public Safety Cabinet shall furnish the information to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and shall also send a copy of the information to the applicant.

(a) Require a background investigation for each adult household member of the certified adoptive or foster home under subsections (1) and (2) of this section; or

(b) Register each adult household member of a certified adoptive or foster home under subsections (1) and (2) of this section in the rap back system.

(a) Provide information on how to recognize and report child abuse or neglect; and

(b) Ensure that, within the first five (5) days of a child under the age of five (5) years old being placed in a fictive kin home, the fictive kin has completed a one (1) time training course of one and one-half (1.5) hours of training covering the prevention and recognition of pediatric abusive head trauma, as defined in KRS 620.020.