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Newton Public Schools expands background checks for new hires

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“Newton Public Schools will expand the background checks it performs on all new hires by checking the Sex Offender Registry Information system (SORI), a nationwide database of sex crime convictions. The move comes after the arrests of two city employees, including a second grade teacher, on child pornography charges earlier this year.

The two cases caused many local parents to call for tougher hiring processes.

City officials maintain they conducted thorough background checks on the two men. Since neither Ettlinger nor Buchanan had criminal records, the tighter procedures being adopted would not have flagged their applications.

Both the city and the Newton Public Schools currently CORIs all new hires and current employees, volunteers, interns, seasonal employees, subcontractors and constables.”

Are your children safe when you drop them off at school each day? Ensure that your school mandates that all employees, contractors and vendors that come on school grounds go through a thorough background check. Be Sure.

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Minister confirms sex-offender worked at school

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“An investigation by the education ministry revealed that for nine days last summer a convicted sex offender was working on a government school campus for a subcontractor. Following an article on CNS last week that raised the issue, the minister told the Legislative Assembly that the man was on site for three and a half days when students were in the school but in a construction zone isolated from the rest of the campus and his remaining time there was spent when students were not at school. Rolston Anglin said that no complaints had been received but he revealed immediate measures to prevent the situation happening again.”

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Noblesville bus driver arrested, charged with child molestation

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“A Noblesville Schools employee is in jail Monday, accused of several counts of child molestation.

Noblesville police arrested Garrett Cornell, 42, at his home in the 1500 block of Hannibal Street Saturday afternoon.

Cornell was charged with four counts of child molesting, Class A felonies; three counts of child molesting, Class C felonies; and one count of child exploitation, a Class C felony.”

Are your children safe when you drop them off at school each day? Ensure that your school mandates that all employees and vendors that come on school grounds go through a thorough background check. Be Sure.

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