Wednesday, November 5, 2008

New Jersey Senate Passes Background Check Bill

The New Jersey Senate unanimously passed a bill last week that will revise the current background check requirements for all school employees who come in contact with students.

Sponsored by Sens. Loretta Weinberg, Barbara Buono and Shirley K. Turner, bill S-110 will revise the current criminal background check requirements for employees by requesting that all teachers and school district employees undergo a criminal background check. Besides the faculty and administration, people who are considered school employees also include bus drivers, cafeteria workers and janitorial staff.

The bill revises criminal history record checks for public and nonpublic school employees and bus drivers, and expands the list of offenses that would disqualify an employee from working at a school.

Buono said revisions to background check procedures are something she had been thinking about for a while.

"There were loopholes that needed to be closed," she said.


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1 comment:

eswanson said...

There is nothing wrong with this bill. After all, this won’t bother all employees of the school if they really don’t have anything to hide. By this way the students and the society will give their full trust to all school employees if this will happen. Anyway there are many online people search engine that you could use for criminal background check and get instant result and hassle-free process.