My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: Iowa
I am a little lost as to what would be the correct forum to ask this in, so if I have chosen incorrectly I apologize.
I am wondering if it is legal for a local government to use the local sheriff to conduct background checks on city applicants? It is my understanding that they are not hiring the local sheriff specifically for the background checks, but rather just having him run background checks on the local library's applicants and volunteers as part of his police duties.
I have tried to search for this on the internet but I just keep coming up with background checks for police and that is not the issue here. The issue is the local city government dictating to the Library director that the director is to do background checks and that the director has to use the local sheriff.
I have one more question. The Library trustee board is requiring background checks on only the Library volunteers and not the library staff. Would this constitute discrimination since it is just the volunteers? The volunteers don't fit in any particular ethnic, age, genetic or people group outside of the fact that the background checks are only being done on volunteers. But on the other hand there is only one volunteer that comprises of the most hours volunteered per month compared to the other two, and that volunteer is over 40, so could that be construed as a age discrimination violation.
Any thoughts or redirections will be appreciated.
Thank You

