employment screening: March 2008 Archivesby Mark Hebert, Clark Fork Chronicle click here to link back to original source After recently attending a mayor’s conference in Helena, Superior Mayor Michael Wood discovered that the town has not been doing everything it needs to do when hiring volunteer firefighters for the Superior Volunteer Fire Department.
Continue reading Superior town council discusses background checks.
BY DEBORAH LAVERTY, The Times Online click here to link back to original source HOBART | A request from the city to provide criminal background checks on employees comes as no surprise to a LaPorte-based carnival owner.
Continue reading City to require checks for carnival workers.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A suspected gang member who worked in a Nashville jail was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. Hector Lopez, 20, was charged with premeditated murder. He worked at the Criminal Justice Center in downtown Nashville as a janitor. When he was arrested early Wednesday morning he still had on his cleaning uniform. Police suspected that he was affiliated with a gang.
Continue reading Justice Center Janitor Charged With Murder.
By Elia Powers, Inside Highered click here to link back to original source An increasing number of colleges are conducting full background checks on potential new hires. But verifying a degree and searching for a police record are two very different exercises. Whether the latter should be common practice is a hot question in human relations circles. So is the question of whether employees should have to disclose prior criminal convictions. The University of Pennsylvania’s Faculty Senate executive committee weighed in this week, opting to reject the idea of developing a uniform policy that would require prospective faculty to come forth with convictions. The vote comes at a time when the university is taking a broad look at its hiring practices. In the past several years, Penn professors have been the subjects of high-profile cases involving sex crimes and voluntary manslaughter.
Continue reading Should Prospective Faculty Disclose Criminal Backgrounds?.
By Tom Joyce, The Mount Airy News click here to link back to original source In what one official described as a sign of the times, Reeves Community Center has announced plans for criminal background checks on facility volunteers for the first time in its 57-year history.
Continue reading RCC plans background checks on volunteers.
By Dan Barker, The Fort Morgan Times click here to link back to original source Volunteers for Wiggins schools will not have to pay for a background check or fingerprinting, although the option will be there if there are any questions about an individual.
Continue reading Wiggins schools won’t require volunteer background checks.
By: Shannon Peluso, News 14 Carolina click here to link back to original source CHARLOTTE -- This time of year, many parents begin signing their children up for summer camps. But before you do, there is one very important question that needs to be asked. Does the summer camp conduct criminal background checks on its employees?
There is no law in North Carolina or any kind of state regulation requiring background checks on summer camps. Because of this, many camps don’t conduct the checks in an effort to save money, even though on average it only costs about $10 per check.
Continue reading No criminal checks on camp counselors.
Continue reading School hire's drug record overlooked in Mashpee.
click here to link back to original source More than 250 certified teachers in Austin Independent School District have a criminal history. This is a follow up to a KVUE News exclusive report we brought you last month. In February we told you a convicted felon was uncovered while the district implemented a new state law that requires fingerprint background checks on all certified teachers. An additional 30 misdemeanor arrests were also found. Since our last report the district has checked the criminal histories of three thousand additional teachers.
Continue reading 250 AISD teachers have a criminal history.
By Megan Boldt, Twin Cities click here to link back to original source Forest Lake plans to do more background checks on adults working in district schools. The proposed changes would require independent contractors and community education volunteers to undergo criminal checks. School board members will discuss the new policy at their Thursday night meeting. Ron Spies, the district's director of human resources, said more thorough background checks have been a topic of discussion in Forest Lake and across Minnesota as stories about alleged misconduct have surfaced during the past year.
Continue reading Forest Lake Schools / Broader criminal checks posed.
By Walter Perez, 6abc.com Tina Tranauskas, a mother from rural northern Bucks County, is spearheading the campaign tighten loopholes in Pennsylvania schools' hiring policies in order to prevent criminals from getting access to children. "The assumption is that everybody who works with children and around children doesn't have a criminal history," Tina said. Tina wants everyone to know that is not necessarily the case. The way the laws currently stand in Pennsylvania, if you are younger than 21-years-old and applying for a job as a teacher or school bus driver, for example, there's no requirement to submit to a criminal background check.
Continue reading Mom seeking stricter background checks.
Nearly every day, Tina Tranauskas sees more and more need to require stronger employee background checks for people who work in schools. Her latest case in point: Arnesx Honore, an eighth-grade math teacher at a Philadelphia disciplinary school who wound up on the city's most-wanted list last month. If a tough new bill Tranauskas is advocating in Harrisburg had been law, the school would have been notified immediately when Honore was charged last year with raping a 14-year-old girl, she said.
Continue reading A call for tougher checks of school staff.
By JOHN GRABER, The Courier click here to link back to original source The cost of being a teacher just went up and local educators aren't happy about it.
Continue reading License fees for teachers skyrocket.
By Michael Rispoli • GANNETT STATE BUREAU click here to link back to original source TRENTON — The Senate Education Committee advanced a bill Thursday aimed at preventing school employees with criminal records from slipping through the cracks when obtaining jobs. The bill would require the state Department of Education to match its database of employees with the state Department of Labor's files to find employees who should have been disqualified from work based on their past criminal history. The checks would be performed every three months. Bill sponsor Sen. Barbara Buono, D-Middlesex, said the new requirement came as a recommendation from a 2007 state audit. The audit found even if the DOE discovered a worker who was disqualified as a result of their criminal history, there was no way to ensure districts would fire the employee after being notified by the state. Buono called it "a common sense bill."
Continue reading Teachers' criminal background checks may be strengthened.
, AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF click here to link back to original source The Austin school district has fingerprinted about two-thirds of its approximately 6,600 certified educators, and criminal histories have popped up for 256 employees after a search of a national crime database. Checks as of Feb. 20 found that 15 educators had felony criminal records, while the other 241 had misdemeanor criminal records, according to information released under the Texas Public Information Act.
Continue reading Austin educator background checks turn up 15 felonies, 241 misdemeanors.
By 10TV News click here to link back to original source COLUMBUS, Ohio - Police said that they are uncovering the shady past of a nursing home worker accused of stealing money from patients. Karen Carter (pictured, right) has a history of financial crimes and is currently on probation, 10TV's Maureen Kocot reported. Carter is accused of stealing from patients at the Sanctuary at Tuttle Crossing Nursing Home where she worked as the business office manager. By Andrea Eger, Tulsa World click here to link back to original source Tulsa Public Schools announced Monday that it had allowed two school bus drivers to resign after learning in recent weeks that they are convicted felons.
Continue reading 2 TPS bus drivers resign after convictions surface .
By Mike Maciag, PJStar click here to link back to original source Facebook and MySpace have become virtual playgrounds for students wanting to socialize with their friends. They're often filled with revealing photographs and personal messages that aren't meant for everyone. In recent years, social networking sites have also become recruiting tools for employers - potentially affecting a college student's ability to land a job. A survey commissioned by Chicago-based CareerBuilder.com in November and December 2007 found that 45 percent of employers used social networking sites or search engines to research potential hires.
Continue reading Personal sites may not be your friend.
By Kenexa, The Earth Times click here to link back to original source WAYNE, Pa., Feb. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Kenexa(R) Sterling is the leading provider of employment and background screening services, offering background checks, drug testing and other key verification and assessment services. More than 4,500 companies and industry leading organizations rely on Sterling Testing Systems to help them qualify and select high-integrity employees. By Janice Crompton, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette click here to link back to original source Requiring background checks for volunteers who interact with children is becoming a common practice in schools, churches, government agencies and youth sports organizations. Just this summer, the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese put into place an expanded requirement from the church for background checks of volunteers. Not all local groups require the screenings, mostly because of the cost and because of what organizers see as one more onerous hoop to jump through for groups already strapped for volunteers.
Continue reading More volunteer-driven organizations develop background check policies.
By BRYON ACKERMAN, Uticaod.com click here to link back to original source HERKIMER — Herkimer County Community College officials are backing legislation that would give college peace officers the authority to conduct criminal background checks on students involved in a possible crime.
Continue reading HCCC wants right to check crime records.
By NIKHIL SWAMINATHAN, New York Post clink here to link back to original source September 24, 2007-- By his own estimate, David Seda should be six months into a job as a route sales representative for Frito-Lay, on the brink of receiving a raise and recently installed in his own apartment. Instead, the 22-year-old is unemployed and living in his father's Bronx home - a victim of what he calls an unfair background check On his application to work at Frito-Lay's facility in Hunts Point in March, in a position that would involve driving a company truck and stocking grocery stores and bodegas with chips, Seda says he disclosed a violation he received in 2003 for marijuana possession. Such noncriminal convictions are typically sealed and don’t show up in searches of criminal databases, but he figured he’d err on the side of caution.
Continue reading THE PRYING GAME.
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