2theadvocate.com | News | EBR schools look at criminal checks: "In an effort to keep people with criminal records out of the classroom, the East Baton Rouge Parish school system is considering hiring a private company to conduct teacher background checks.
Those investigations would be done in addition to the state and federal background checks already executed by the Louisiana State Police, said school system spokesman Chris Trahan.
The overlap would enable the school system to get background-check results in 24 hours compared with the four to six weeks it takes now, he said.
“We are trying to be proactive,” said Liz Duran Swinford, associate superintendent for the school system’s human resources department. “This would supplement what the state gives us to minimize any kind of exposure.”
Duran Swinford said she hopes to pitch the idea to the School Board in March or April, and if approved, have the private background checks up and running by spring, she said."
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