ICPC State Pages

About the ICPC

The Association of Administrators of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (AAICPC) was established in 1974 and consists of members from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The AAICPC has authority under ICPC to "promulgate rules and regulations to carry out more effectively the terms and provisions of this compact." The AAICPC obtains its Secretariat Services, as an affiliate of the American Public Human Services Association (APHSA).

For more information, please visit the AAICPC website.

Contact the AAICPC

American Public Human Services Association
1133 Nineteenth Street, NW
Suite 400
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 682-0100
fax: (202) 289-6555

Web Manager: Carla Fults [cfults@aphsa.org]

Click on a state to see it's page:

ICPC STATE Pages

Indiana

Office Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern Standard / Daylight Time Zone · Phone: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) · Fax: (317) 232-2096

Indiana Criminal Background Checks/Abuse and Neglect Registry

Home Studies which Require Criminal / Perpetrator Record Checks

Indiana requires criminal background checks for the following home studies:

Foster Care
Relative Care
Relative-Foster Care
Foster-Adopt
Adoption
Parent

Criminal Background Screening

The following methods are used to capture fingerprints to conduct criminal records checks:

Live Scan or other computerized technology
Finger Print cards
Other, specified below

Indiana uses fingerprint cards in very limited situations (when a person is unable to go to a live scan location)
Abuse/Neglect checks are done by completion of request form and searching statewide database

Criminal background checks/screening via Live Scan or other computerized technology are offered at the following levels:

National
State

State or Local Criminal Record Checks Requirements/Process:

State checks are completed as part of the fingerprinting process unlees the particular type of applicant doesn't require printing and the state checks are cpmpleted as name based through the State Police. All local checks are completed as name checks at individual police, sheriff offices.

Applicant will not be approved if the person has committed any of the following misdemeanor or felony offenses:

A misdemeanor conviction related to the health or safety of a child or any or the following felony convictions: murder, causing suicide, assisting suicide, voluntary manslaughter, reckless homicide, battery, domestic battery, kidnapping ,criminal confinement, felony sex offense, carjacking, arson, incest, child selling.

Types of Checks (Crim. & Abuse Neglect Registry)

Indiana requires the following types of criminal background and perpetrator checks (Federal (F), State (S), Local (L), Abuse and Neglect Registry (ANR), Not Required (NR)):

Federal State Local ANR NR

Foster Care y y y y

Relative y y y y

Relative Foster Care y y y y

Foster-Adopt y y y y

Adoption y y y y

Parent y y y

	Federal	State	Local	ANR
Foster Care	y	y	y	y
Relative	y	y	y	y
Relative Foster Care	y	y	y	y
Foster-Adopt	y	y	y	y
Adoption	y	y	y	y
Parent		y	y	y

Indiana provides Abuse and Neglect searches:

Wait Time for Criminal Records Results

Wait time for fingerprint results are:

Live Scan or other technology

State: 48-72 hours

Local/County: Not Offered

Manually - Fingerprint Card

State: Not Offered

Local/County: Not Offered

Verification of Criminal Records Results

Actual results/information contained in the Criminal Background

Period of Time the Checks are Valid

Checks valid for 12 months