WHen you packet gets to Austin they do a preliminary check thru the TCIC (Texas criminal database). Then they send one set of prints to the DPS ID section and another to the FBI.
The packet is then sent to a Trooper (or other DPS designee) in each county you have lived/worked. That designee goes to the county criminal and civil clerks offices and makes a personal background check. The local Tax offices are personally checked also.
If you have medical indications on your application those are verified also.
Once the designee completes the background the packet is sent back to Austin. Austin must also inquire with the Texas AG and Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation for delinquencies.
Austin also compares the number on your TR100 to the Class Completion list your instructor is required to submit after a class.
It is a complicated and thorough process. With 254 counties in Texas often convictions do not get forwarded to DPS or included in TCIC. The only way to accurately check is to go into each county. (as a PI I never depend solely on state level criminal records when conducting a background investigation)
State law requires that within 90 days after DPS receives your COMPLETED packet that they either issue, deny, or tell you that they need more time. Considering the process and the fact that DPS was not allocated additional manpower to conduct these backgrounds, 90 days is not unreasonable. Those DPS "designees" in each county have their regular jobs to do in addition to the CHL backgrounds.
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- Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:58 pm
- Forum: The "Waiting Room"
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Re: "Waiting Room"
I ran across an interesting posting on the GlockTalk forum (don't own a Glock, I had googled "Montgomery County CHL" and for some reason it was on the results list). This helps explain processing time: