School Bus

 

School Bus

According to the provisions of this Program, new school bus drivers must undergo fingerprinting and submit to a criminal history On the state level, solidly funded bus drivers licensing Program, providing for mandatory background check for school bus drivers, is currently deployed in New York. A similar program previously was implemented with success by the initiative of Hamilton County Clerk of Courts regarding foster parents. These background checks go way beyond the existing state law providing for a simple search of driving and DUI records database, and they are totally free of charge.

 The program capacity allows to cover 23 public school districts and over 100 private schools across the county, and if criminal information concerning an individual doing bus driving for a school is detected, notification is released immediately to the appropriate school district. Since the summer of 2007, free criminal background checks for school bus drivers against Ohio Hamilton County court records started being offered by the Office of Hamilton County Clerk of Courts. Good example comes from Ohio. Even if for a long time there was no nationwide program for background checks for any of these categories of employees interacting with children, it's quite a time since some states and counties started implementing such programs, and some valuable experience started to build up towards creating and adopting standards for bigger scale school employees background check programs.

  Caring for schoolchildren is a tremendous responsibility resting not just with teachers, but also with other personnel, like school bus drivers, foster care parents, day care providers and other school employees.