Post by pavel on Feb 4, 2016 18:10:50 GMT -6
The House Education Committee on Wednesday voted in favor of a bill that would require all school employees in New Mexico to undergo a background check with fingerprinting, but committee members asked the measure’s sponsor to remove language that essentially mandates that teachers snitch on co-workers with criminal convictions.
“You don’t want to require people ratting each other out,” state Rep. Dennis Roch, R-Logan, told Rep. David Adkins, R-Albuquerque, whose bill would require all licensed school employees to tell their boss if they know that another colleague has been convicted of a misdemeanor or felony charge that isn’t included in the background check on file for that employee.
Rep. Christine Trujillo, D-Albuquerque, agreed, telling Adkins that the bill’s language encourages staffers to “tattletale on their colleagues.”
Current law does not require background checks for school employees hired before May 1998 who have worked for the same district since that time. Adkins introduced House Bill 127 to eliminate that loophole and require that all school employees have current background checks in place. The bill sets a July 1, 2017, deadline for districts to have background checks with fingerprints on file.
Read more: www.santafenewmexican.com/news/education/bill-requiring-background-checks-for-all-school-workers-advances/article_8f90bb4c-227d-50ec-a0d4-10255e931185.html
“You don’t want to require people ratting each other out,” state Rep. Dennis Roch, R-Logan, told Rep. David Adkins, R-Albuquerque, whose bill would require all licensed school employees to tell their boss if they know that another colleague has been convicted of a misdemeanor or felony charge that isn’t included in the background check on file for that employee.
Rep. Christine Trujillo, D-Albuquerque, agreed, telling Adkins that the bill’s language encourages staffers to “tattletale on their colleagues.”
Current law does not require background checks for school employees hired before May 1998 who have worked for the same district since that time. Adkins introduced House Bill 127 to eliminate that loophole and require that all school employees have current background checks in place. The bill sets a July 1, 2017, deadline for districts to have background checks with fingerprints on file.
Read more: www.santafenewmexican.com/news/education/bill-requiring-background-checks-for-all-school-workers-advances/article_8f90bb4c-227d-50ec-a0d4-10255e931185.html