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Tea Area School District board holds first reading of volunteer background-check policy after DCI audit
Summary
Board members reviewed a first reading of a revised volunteer background-check policy flagged by a DCI audit and discussed options for Level 3 volunteers such as coaches and overnight chaperones; staff will return options to the policy committee before the April meeting.
At a meeting of the Tea Area School District 41-5 Board of Education, trustees held a first reading of revisions to the district’s volunteer background-check policy after a DCI audit flagged the language governing Level 3 volunteers.
The revisions under consideration would remove language that presumed the district could run criminal-background checks for volunteers. Speaker 3, a district staff member, said, “So, Wendy worked through our DCI…
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