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Panel advances bill to share child exploitation alerts with background-check system after daycare abuse case
Summary
The committee voted to re‑refer House File 2,226 to Judiciary after testimony that background checks did not reflect repeated National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) alerts in a case where a daycare employee later was arrested for possession of child sexual-abuse material.
The Children and Families Committee voted Oct. 12 to re‑refer House File 2,226 to the Judiciary Committee after hearing testimony that gaps in interagency data sharing allowed a person under repeated alerts for child sexual‑abuse material (CSAM) to continue working in child care.
Sponsor Representative [West] introduced the bill and described it as legislation to allow a limited data interface so that alerts the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) receives from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) would be available to the agency that handles childcare background studies. The sponsor…
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