Utah Code § 53G-7-904: Internship programs -- Criminal background checks.

(1)

(a) A public or private school may enter into an internship safety agreement with a cooperating employer.

(b) The public or private school described in Subsection (1)(a) shall ensure that the internship safety agreement requires a cooperating employer to:

(i) 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;

(ii) maintain compliance with all applicable state and federal laws relating to workplace and student safety, privacy, and welfare; and

(iii) 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)

(a) 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.

(b) 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.