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New Iowa Bill Calls for Intensified Background Checks on School Workers

The Globe Gazette in Iowa is in an editorial calling for more intensive background checks for school workers.   The heightened employment screening program would be focused on new unlicensed job applicants.  The newspaper’s editorial is in support of a new bill heading for the governor’s signature.

The perceived need for more intensive criminal records background searches comes in the wake of a particular tragedy where a sex-offender abducted a teenage girl.

According to the article in the Globe Gazette…”She would like to see legislation strengthened to require background checks on unlicensed employees working in school districts as well as on new unlicensed workers. The bill headed to Branstad also requires background checks every five years after the first one. Koenigs believes they should be more frequent.”

The article sites while this one particular case is sensational in content there are many lesser offenses that go undiscovered or unreported.