State Bar & Bar Associations
Jul. 24, 2017
State Bar board rejects proposal to destroy attorneys’ fingerprint records
Staff had suggested destroying more than 2,300 fingerprint cards the agency had never sent to law enforcement.
State Bar trustees recently rejected a staff recommendation to destroy more than 2,300 fingerprint cards the bar never sent to law enforcement for receipt of alerts about lawyers’ arrests or convictions.
Chief Operating Officer Leah Wilson said staff were concerned about the fairness of submitting the unprocessed cards belonging to licensed attorneys when the rest of the roughly 190,000 active licensees will have to be re-fingerprin...
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