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Ark. Code Ann. § 11-2-123

Employment training and placement programs for ex-offenders

Acts 2011, No. 1151, § 2; 2019, No. 910, § 5300.

(1) In order to help facilitate the restoration of an ex-offender's responsibility and self-sufficiency, the Division of Labor shall work in conjunction with other appropriate state agencies, the private sector, and labor organizations to promulgate rules for implementing placement and training programs for ex-offenders.

(2) Training and placement programs shall be intensive and focus on in-demand vocations and professions, including without limitation: Professional careers and vocations;

(3) Service careers and vocations;

(4) Information and computer technology;

(5) Medical technology; and

(6) Office administration.

(7) A training program created and administered under this section shall incorporate a “Certificate of Completion” to be awarded to any person who completes a training program under this section, which shall signify that the person is competent to enter the workforce as an employee satisfactorily trained in a particular vocation or profession or as an employee prepared for on-the-job training.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.