Delaware Education Department staff would face criminal background checks

Current employees and people with conditional job offers would have to get criminal background checks. This would cover current Delaware Education Department employees and people conditionally offered jobs there. They would have to give fingerprints and other needed information for state and federal criminal record reports. Current employees would have to submit that information within 30 days of receiving the department’s written request.

The education secretary could require criminal background checks for contractors and other outside parties. This would cover current or prospective contractors and other outside parties who may need access to student records. Anyone required to get a check would have to give fingerprints and other needed information for state and federal criminal record reports. Current contractors required to get a check would have to submit that information within 30 days of receiving the department’s written request.

The state would send later criminal records to the department, which could use check results for job and access decisions. Later reports would cover checked current employees, contractors, and other outside parties. The state would send updates from the Rap Back criminal record system only if that system is available. The department could use check results only as allowed by law. The reporting of later records would apply after a covered person gets a check.