The board of commissioners may adopt or provide for rules and regulations or ordinances concerning a requirement that any applicant for employment be subject to a criminal history record check of State and National Repositories of Criminal Histories conducted by the Department of Public Safety in accordance with N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143B-945 The local or regional public employer may consider the results of these criminal history record checks in its hiring decisions. ?(2005-358, s. 2; 2014-100, s. 17.1(mmm).)