Are Notary Publics authorized to do fingerprinting?

I would speak to your local police dept. and see if you are authorized as a citizen to do fingerprinting. I know sometimes schools do fingerprinting for parents safety kits, and that when a baby is born, the nurses automatically do a set of prints (plus the feet.) My thought is that since nurses are not trained, or belong to a police force, that maybe it indeed is allowable. If it is OK for you to do, I would then ask the local police station if you could have a lesson from one of them, or be allowed to watch the fingerprinting proceedure so that you learn it correctly. I do know that for all the pre-job applications that I needed fingerprints for, they always did a background check too. I had it done through the police department and the company I worked with paid.

Its a different thing, unless u get certified they'll have to go to the cop shop