House Bill 611 Summary

• Expands the powers of the Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission and the Sheriffs' Education and Training Standards Commission to certify, recertify, suspend, revoke, or deny certification for instructors with probationary or limited teaching privileges, qualified assistants, in-service training coordinators, executive officers, and school directors.

• Prohibits expunged juvenile offenses from being used to deny law enforcement certification, establishing that convictions expunged under G.S. 15A-145.4 or G.S. 15A-145.8A shall not count as disqualifying convictions.

• Allows both commissions to access confidential felony conviction records from the Administrative Office of the Courts, including expunged convictions, but restricts their ability to use expunged convictions as grounds for certification denial unless the expungement was not under the specified statutes.

• Requires the Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission and Sheriffs' Education and Training Standards Commission to adopt rules defining that "conviction" shall not include offenses expunged pursuant to G.S. 15A-145.4 or G.S. 15A-145.8A.

• Makes personnel records placed in criminal justice officers' files subject to the same privacy disclosure requirements under North Carolina personnel record statutes.