53G-7-904. Internship programs -- Criminal background checks.
(1) A public or private school may enter into an internship safety agreement with a cooperating employer. The public or private school described in Subsectionshall ensure that the internship safety agreement requires a cooperating employer to: (1)(a) ensure that an adult officer or employee of the cooperating employer is not intentionally alone with an intern for any significant amount of time during the intern's activities; maintain compliance with all applicable state and federal laws relating to workplace and student safety, privacy, and welfare; and provide a safe, educational, courteous, and welcoming professional environment that is free of harassment or discriminatory conduct that may result in a hostile, intimidating, abusive, offensive, or oppressive learning environment.
(2) If a public or private school has not entered into an internship safety agreement with a cooperating employer, officers and employees of the cooperating employer who will be given significant unsupervised access to a student in connection with the student's activities as an intern shall submit to criminal background checks under Section. 53G-11-402 If a public or private school has entered into an internship safety agreement with a cooperating employer, officers and employees of the cooperating employer are exempt from the criminal background check requirement described in Section. 53G-11-402