{"id":123370,"date":"2016-02-03T17:15:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T00:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=123370"},"modified":"2016-02-03T17:15:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T00:15:07","slug":"bill-to-require-background-checks-for-all-school-workers-advances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2016\/02\/bill-to-require-background-checks-for-all-school-workers-advances\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill to require background checks for all school workers advances"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Heath Haussamen \/ NMPolitics.net<\/p>

Committee members asked the measure’s sponsor to remove language that essentially mandates that teachers snitch on co-workers with criminal convictions.<\/p><\/div>\n

The House Education Committee on Wednesday<\/span><\/span> voted in favor of a bill that would require all school employees in New Mexico to get a background check with fingerprinting, but committee members asked the measure’s sponsor to remove language that essentially mandates that teachers snitch on co-workers with criminal convictions.<\/p>\n

“You don’t want to require people ratting each other out,” state Rep. Dennis Roch, R-Logan, told Rep. David Adkins, R-Albuquerque, whose bill would require all licensed school employees to tell their boss if they know that another colleague has been convicted of a misdemeanor or felony charge that isn’t included in the background check on file for that employee.<\/p>\n