Attorney Clerk/ Law Clerk

Job Description:

Job Title: Classification Clerk/ BCI

Duration: 1 Year

Work Location: Cranston, RI, 02910

Required Hours/Week: 35

Job Description:

About the Office: The state’s top lawyer and law enforcement official, protecting and serving the people and interests through a broad range of duties. Every day, the Office’s attorneys fight to ensure the public safety of the state’s communities, improve the economic security of its citizens, safeguard the state’s spectacular natural resources, and restore the public’s trust in government. Assistant and Special Assistant represent the people of Rhode Island in civil and criminal matters before trial courts, appellate courts, and the supreme courts of the United States. The Office is unique among attorneys offices across the country. Out of fifty states, only two other offices share the same broad criminal mission. The Office’s attorneys prosecute complex and violent crimes but also functionally serve as one of the nation’s largest district attorney’s offices, prosecuting all felonies throughout the state.

Duties/Responsibilities: The office is seeking an individual with excellent organizational, social and communication skills to fill a position within the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation (BCI). The position offers a unique and challenging experience for a highly motivated person. The selected candidate will be assigned to work as a classification clerk within BCI. This position is for the first shift (8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.) and requires working one weekend every 5-6 weeks. Primary duties include the following:

• Conducting criminal background checks for the public
• Processing criminal record expungement orders from the court system
• Processing Permit to Carry a Pistol applications
• Processing Security Guard License applications
• Answering phone calls from the public
• Conducting criminal history checks for prosecuting attorneys
• Entering/quashing warrants in the state and national criminal history systems
• Working with police departments to confirm warrants and court orders
• Entering criminal case dispositions
• Entering Restraining/No Contact Orders into state and national criminal history systems.
• Processing fax requests from Courts, Judges, and police departments
• Monitoring security cameras for all AG buildings
• The processing of applicants for a fingerprint based national criminal history check at the Attorney General’s Customer Service Center, located at 4 Howard Avenue in Cranston, RI.
• Processing of applicant criminal history inquiries through the use of the AFIS Client Workstation.
• To have a working understanding of the Computerized Criminal History (CCH) system and the workflow between the AFIS environment and the CCH environment.
• Operation of BCI’s Quick Search two finger scan, a process for matching a two-finger scan with an existing ten print fingerprint card in the AFIS system.
• To have a knowledge and understanding of all State statutes that require a National Background fingerprint check.

Education/Experience/Special Requirements:

Applicants should have excellent computer skills, be well organized and comfortable dealing with the public. Familiarity with criminal justice procedures is preferred but not mandatory.

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $25.00 - $27.16 per hour

Expected hours: 35 per week

Work Location: In person