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Alachua officials flag cost, timeline for new statewide background-screening clearinghouse
Summary
Trustees discussed a state-driven shift to a fingerprinting clearinghouse that will require district employees and some volunteers to be fingerprinted and rechecked; staff said the clearinghouse fee is about $84 and the state timeline could force expensive, district-wide rechecks by mid-2027.
At the workshop the board addressed statewide changes to criminal-background screening and how the district will comply. Staff said the Florida clearinghouse will centralize criminal-history checks and require fingerprinting for new hires and periodic rescreening. "The state is saying we have to have all employees reprinted by June of '27," a district staff member said, and the typical per-person clearinghouse fee cited in the meeting was about $84.
Board members raised budget…
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