In a move that many have expected to come for a long time KY has a bill that will allow parochial school boards the right to background check their teachers and staff. Original article

The government of Riverside County California has decided to do something in that area wouldn’t have expected, Riverside has started charging $1 to access public records online and you still get charged the dollar even if the name or record is not available.

What merchant would charge you to search its Web site to see if it has a particular product in inventory? None.

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Many college institutions ask prospective college students if they have ever been convicted of a serious crime, well experts are weighing the facts if background checks are required for students entering into college. Well come to find out more than 60% of colleges who participated in a survey used criminal background checks to determine whether a student with a criminal record should be admitted. Of those 60% only half had offical policies in order to do so. Here’s the original story.

Come to find out Georgia conducts the least amount of criminal background checks in the southeast when it comes to day care teachers and day care owners, the only exception being North Carolina in certain cases.

Most parents think that day care regulation is stricter than it actually is. In 2008 a day care owner who was not to have any contact with kids was caught caring from them.

Military run day care staff must wear different colored smocks, until their background check clearance comes back. Among the most responsible states South Carolina, and Mississippi require full state and federal background checks, sex offender and child abuse records, as well as fingerprints. Tennesee does annual physical and mental evaulations to check ability to care for children.

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So with many government agencies moving into the computer age, California cities and counties have started destroying all the paper records that have been accumulated over the years. Everything from meeting agendas, speeches, expense accounts, audits, and even the authorizations to destroy records are being destroyed.

Just recently Gov. Schwarzenegger stopped the shredding of all paroled sex offenders because of the murder of 17-year-old Chelsea King for which the state only kept the records for a year after the convict completed parole.

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So what would you say if you found out the person who you were chatting with on Match.com was in fact a convicted murderer? Well that’s exactly what a San Francisco news site found out. Many dating sites do not conduct criminal background checks and are not required by law to do so. The person in question was convicted of killing 2 people in 1970 and served less than 11 years in jail. What do you think should a convicted killer be able to peruse dating sites or should dating sites be more proactive in protecting their users? Let me know in the comments.