Employee Background Checks Identify Thousands of Utah Teachers
Monday, October 26th, 2009Up to 50 people with Utah jobs as public school teachers were recently found to have criminal violations after undergoing employee background checks.
According to an article by The Salt Lake Tribune, all of the state’s 20,000 licensed teachers were recently required to undergo criminal history checks as part of an effort to improve the system for performing background checks on school employees.
The names released by public safety officials came from a new computer data bank of 112,000 school employee names and birth dates that were cross referenced against Utah arrests dating back to the 1960s.