Violation

During a visit to Blount County Schools HR on 2/21/18 and a subsequent visit to Rockford Elementary Friends, background checks for staff were verified. One employee’s background check included an indication for drug possession. Individuals with drug possession charges are not permitted to work for DOE monitored programs. Chapter 0520-12-01-.07(15) No individual with a prohibited criminal history as defined below may work, substitute or volunteer in a program, be an owner, director or manager of a program who has access to children, have significant contact with children or otherwise have unrestricted access to children in any manner whatsoever. An individual shall be immediately and automatically excluded from a program or any contact whatsoever with children if the individual’s criminal history includes: (a) A criminal conviction or no-contest or guilty plea; or any pending criminal action… (b) A pending juvenile action or previous juvenile adjudication, which, if an adult, would constitute a criminal offense; and (c) Any of the circumstances in (a) or (b) above involves any of the following criminal offenses: 1. Any offense (including a lesser included offense) involving the physical, sexual or emotional abuse or gross neglect of a child or involving a threat to the health, safety or welfare of a child; 2. Any offense (including a lesser included offense) involving violence, or the threat of violence against another person; and/or 3. Any offense (including a lesser included offense) involving, the manufacture, sale, distribution or possession of any drug.

Corrected Corrected by Feb 26, 2018

Category: background checks. Marked corrected in the state record.