If your going to be volunteering to be helping out in a New Jersey school anytime soon, you better be ready to pay for your own background check according to a new bill going through legislation now. Currently if a school board decides to perform a check on a volunteer the school must foot the bill, however under the new law being proposed the volunteer will have to pay for the background check being conducted. I don’t know it could prevent things like this from happening.

Right now it costs the public $0.25 to $0.75 per page to obtain printed copies of public records in New Jersey. Their has been a recent law proposal that if passed that would decrease the cost of public records copies mainly printed documents by about $0.15 . Others that oppose the bill are worried that the reduced costs of printed copies will trickle down to faxed and emailed copies as well.

Napa county officials just passed a ordinance that would require all private caregivers to submit to a criminal background check after 3 years of lobbying for elderly people who have outside workers in their homes. Full story

Federal law mandates that gun stores do background checks on people buying guns, but doesn’t require a background check on people who rent a gun at the store shooting range. But a felon can’t even handle (with proof) or possess a firearm. Original Story

So as much as I don’t like reading or hearing about kids being abused by adults this is one situation that should be handled accordingly by the police.
And your probably wondering what this has to do with background checks right? The thing is that she didn’t need to be certified or screened for a background check to teach in a Texas charter school. And to top it all off she was wanted on a criminal mischief charge, for slashing a woman’s tires last year.

Found the original story here, and another here

What are your thoughts on the matter should she be criminally prosecuted?

Well, when I saw this I said to myself “How Cool”. If you live in St. Cloud, MN then you have the oppurtunity to learn first hand from the fine St.Cloud PD how to find public criminal history records, conviction records and offender registries that will allow you to screen for yourself caretakers, workers, etc. all for Free! Only catch you have to live in St. Cloud, MN

If you live in St. Cloud here’s the info you’ll need.