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Committee reviews amendment expanding centralized criminal-history checks to education providers
Summary
The committee reviewed an amendment from the Department of Education to extend a centralized criminal-history check model (used for school bus drivers) to other education-related providers and to expand the criminal-history lookback period from five to ten years.
Representative Alessandra Murray and Department of Education staff discussed an amendment to expand the state'wide criminal-history check process so that occupational providers who serve multiple districts (physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists) are screened the same way as school bus drivers.
Steve Appleby, Division Director at the…
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