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1 | AN ACT concerning education.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections | ||||||
5 | 10-21.9 and 34-18.5 as follows:
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6 | (105 ILCS 5/10-21.9) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-21.9)
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7 | Sec. 10-21.9. Criminal history records checks and checks of | ||||||
8 | the Statewide Sex Offender Database and Statewide Child | ||||||
9 | Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database.
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10 | (a) Certified and noncertified applicants for employment | ||||||
11 | with a school
district, except school bus driver applicants, | ||||||
12 | are required as a condition
of employment to authorize a | ||||||
13 | fingerprint-based criminal history records check to determine | ||||||
14 | if such applicants have been convicted of any of
the enumerated | ||||||
15 | criminal or drug offenses in subsection (c) of this Section or
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16 | have been convicted, within 7 years of the application for | ||||||
17 | employment with
the
school district, of any other felony under | ||||||
18 | the laws of this State or of any
offense committed or attempted | ||||||
19 | in any other state or against the laws of
the United States | ||||||
20 | that, if committed or attempted in this State, would
have been | ||||||
21 | punishable as a felony under the laws of this State.
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22 | Authorization for
the check shall be furnished by the applicant | ||||||
23 | to
the school district, except that if the applicant is a |
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1 | substitute teacher
seeking employment in more than one school | ||||||
2 | district, a teacher seeking
concurrent part-time employment | ||||||
3 | positions with more than one school
district (as a reading | ||||||
4 | specialist, special education teacher or otherwise),
or an | ||||||
5 | educational support personnel employee seeking employment | ||||||
6 | positions
with more than one district, any such district may | ||||||
7 | require the applicant to
furnish authorization for
the check to | ||||||
8 | the regional superintendent
of the educational service region | ||||||
9 | in which are located the school districts
in which the | ||||||
10 | applicant is seeking employment as a substitute or concurrent
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11 | part-time teacher or concurrent educational support personnel | ||||||
12 | employee.
Upon receipt of this authorization, the school | ||||||
13 | district or the appropriate
regional superintendent, as the | ||||||
14 | case may be, shall submit the applicant's
name, sex, race, date | ||||||
15 | of birth, social security number, fingerprint images, and other | ||||||
16 | identifiers, as prescribed by the Department
of State Police, | ||||||
17 | to the Department. The regional
superintendent submitting the | ||||||
18 | requisite information to the Department of
State Police shall | ||||||
19 | promptly notify the school districts in which the
applicant is | ||||||
20 | seeking employment as a substitute or concurrent part-time
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21 | teacher or concurrent educational support personnel employee | ||||||
22 | that
the
check of the applicant has been requested. The | ||||||
23 | Department of State Police and the Federal Bureau of | ||||||
24 | Investigation shall furnish, pursuant to a fingerprint-based | ||||||
25 | criminal history records check, records of convictions, until | ||||||
26 | expunged, to the president of the school board for the school |
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1 | district that requested the check, or to the regional | ||||||
2 | superintendent who requested the check.
The
Department shall | ||||||
3 | charge
the school district
or the appropriate regional | ||||||
4 | superintendent a fee for
conducting
such check, which fee shall | ||||||
5 | be deposited in the State
Police Services Fund and shall not | ||||||
6 | exceed the cost of
the inquiry; and the
applicant shall not be | ||||||
7 | charged a fee for
such check by the school
district or by the | ||||||
8 | regional superintendent. Subject to appropriations for these | ||||||
9 | purposes, the State Superintendent of Education shall | ||||||
10 | reimburse school districts and regional superintendents for | ||||||
11 | fees paid to obtain criminal history records checks under this | ||||||
12 | Section.
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13 | (a-5) The school district or regional superintendent shall | ||||||
14 | further perform a check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database, | ||||||
15 | as authorized by the Sex Offender Community Notification Law, | ||||||
16 | for each applicant.
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17 | (a-6) The school district or regional superintendent shall | ||||||
18 | further perform a check of the Statewide Child Murderer and | ||||||
19 | Violent Offender Against Youth Database, as authorized by the | ||||||
20 | Child Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Community | ||||||
21 | Notification Law, for each applicant.
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22 | (b)
Any information
concerning the record of convictions | ||||||
23 | obtained by the president of the
school board or the regional | ||||||
24 | superintendent shall be confidential and may
only be | ||||||
25 | transmitted to the superintendent of the school district or his
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26 | designee, the appropriate regional superintendent if
the check |
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1 | was
requested by the school district, the presidents of the | ||||||
2 | appropriate school
boards if
the check was requested from the | ||||||
3 | Department of State
Police by the regional superintendent, the | ||||||
4 | State Superintendent of
Education, the State Teacher | ||||||
5 | Certification Board , or any other person
necessary to the | ||||||
6 | decision of hiring the applicant for employment , or for | ||||||
7 | clarification purposes the Department of State Police or | ||||||
8 | Statewide Sex Offender Database, or both . A copy
of the record | ||||||
9 | of convictions obtained from the Department of State Police
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10 | shall be provided to the applicant for employment. Upon the | ||||||
11 | check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database, the school | ||||||
12 | district or regional superintendent shall notify an applicant | ||||||
13 | as to whether or not the applicant has been identified in the | ||||||
14 | Database as a sex offender. If a check of
an applicant for | ||||||
15 | employment as a substitute or concurrent part-time teacher
or | ||||||
16 | concurrent educational support personnel employee in more than | ||||||
17 | one
school district was requested by the regional | ||||||
18 | superintendent, and the
Department of State Police upon a check | ||||||
19 | ascertains that the applicant
has not been convicted of any of | ||||||
20 | the enumerated criminal or drug offenses
in subsection (c)
or | ||||||
21 | has not been convicted, within 7 years of the
application for
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22 | employment with the
school district, of any other felony under | ||||||
23 | the laws of this State or of any
offense committed or attempted | ||||||
24 | in any other state or against the laws of
the United States | ||||||
25 | that, if committed or attempted in this State, would
have been | ||||||
26 | punishable as a felony under the laws of this State
and so |
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1 | notifies the regional
superintendent and if the regional | ||||||
2 | superintendent upon a check ascertains that the applicant has | ||||||
3 | not been identified in the Sex Offender Database as a sex | ||||||
4 | offender, then the
regional superintendent shall issue to the | ||||||
5 | applicant a certificate
evidencing that as of the date | ||||||
6 | specified by the Department of State Police
the applicant has | ||||||
7 | not been convicted of any of the enumerated criminal or
drug | ||||||
8 | offenses in subsection (c)
or has not been
convicted, within 7 | ||||||
9 | years of the application for employment with the
school | ||||||
10 | district, of any other felony under the laws of this State or | ||||||
11 | of any
offense committed or attempted in any other state or | ||||||
12 | against the laws of
the United States that, if committed or | ||||||
13 | attempted in this State, would
have been punishable as a felony | ||||||
14 | under the laws of this State and evidencing that as of the date | ||||||
15 | that the regional superintendent conducted a check of the | ||||||
16 | Statewide Sex Offender Database, the applicant has not been | ||||||
17 | identified in the Database as a sex offender. The school
board | ||||||
18 | of
any
school district
may rely on the
certificate issued by | ||||||
19 | any regional superintendent to that substitute teacher, | ||||||
20 | concurrent part-time teacher, or concurrent educational | ||||||
21 | support personnel employee or may
initiate its own criminal | ||||||
22 | history records check of the applicant through the Department | ||||||
23 | of
State Police and its own check of the Statewide Sex Offender | ||||||
24 | Database as provided in subsection (a). Any person who releases | ||||||
25 | any
confidential information concerning any criminal | ||||||
26 | convictions of an
applicant for employment shall be guilty of a |
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1 | Class A misdemeanor, unless
the release of such information is | ||||||
2 | authorized by this Section.
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3 | (c) No school board shall knowingly employ a person who has | ||||||
4 | been
convicted of any offense that would subject him or her to | ||||||
5 | certification suspension or revocation pursuant to Section | ||||||
6 | 21-23a of this Code.
Further, no school board shall knowingly | ||||||
7 | employ a person who has been found
to be the perpetrator of | ||||||
8 | sexual or physical abuse of any minor under 18 years
of age | ||||||
9 | pursuant to proceedings under Article II of the Juvenile Court | ||||||
10 | Act of
1987.
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11 | (d) No school board shall knowingly employ a person for | ||||||
12 | whom a criminal
history records check and a Statewide Sex | ||||||
13 | Offender Database check has not been initiated.
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14 | (e) Upon receipt of the record of a conviction of or a | ||||||
15 | finding of child
abuse by a holder of any
certificate issued | ||||||
16 | pursuant to Article 21 or Section 34-8.1 or 34-83 of the
School | ||||||
17 | Code, the
State Superintendent of Education may initiate | ||||||
18 | certificate suspension
and revocation proceedings as | ||||||
19 | authorized by law.
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20 | (e-5) The superintendent of the employing school board | ||||||
21 | shall, in writing, notify the State Superintendent of Education | ||||||
22 | and the applicable regional superintendent of schools of any | ||||||
23 | certificate holder whom he or she has reasonable cause to | ||||||
24 | believe has committed an intentional act of abuse or neglect | ||||||
25 | with the result of making a child an abused child or a | ||||||
26 | neglected child, as defined in Section 3 of the Abused and |
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1 | Neglected Child Reporting Act, and that act resulted in the | ||||||
2 | certificate holder's dismissal or resignation from the school | ||||||
3 | district. This notification must be submitted within 30 days | ||||||
4 | after the dismissal or resignation. The certificate holder must | ||||||
5 | also be contemporaneously sent a copy of the notice by the | ||||||
6 | superintendent. All correspondence, documentation, and other | ||||||
7 | information so received by the regional superintendent of | ||||||
8 | schools, the State Superintendent of Education, the State Board | ||||||
9 | of Education, or the State Teacher Certification Board under | ||||||
10 | this subsection (e-5) is confidential and must not be disclosed | ||||||
11 | to third parties, except (i) as necessary for the State | ||||||
12 | Superintendent of Education or his or her designee to | ||||||
13 | investigate and prosecute pursuant to Article 21 of this Code, | ||||||
14 | (ii) pursuant to a court order, (iii) for disclosure to the | ||||||
15 | certificate holder or his or her representative, or (iv) as | ||||||
16 | otherwise provided in this Article and provided that any such | ||||||
17 | information admitted into evidence in a hearing is exempt from | ||||||
18 | this confidentiality and non-disclosure requirement. Except | ||||||
19 | for an act of willful or wanton misconduct, any superintendent | ||||||
20 | who provides notification as required in this subsection (e-5) | ||||||
21 | shall have immunity from any liability, whether civil or | ||||||
22 | criminal or that otherwise might result by reason of such | ||||||
23 | action. | ||||||
24 | (f) After January 1, 1990 the provisions of this Section | ||||||
25 | shall apply
to all employees of persons or firms holding | ||||||
26 | contracts with any school
district including, but not limited |
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1 | to, food service workers, school bus
drivers and other | ||||||
2 | transportation employees, who have direct, daily contact
with | ||||||
3 | the pupils of any school in such district. For purposes of | ||||||
4 | criminal
history records checks and checks of the Statewide Sex | ||||||
5 | Offender Database on employees of persons or firms holding
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6 | contracts with more than one school district and assigned to | ||||||
7 | more than one
school district, the regional superintendent of | ||||||
8 | the educational service
region in which the contracting school | ||||||
9 | districts are located may, at the
request of any such school | ||||||
10 | district, be responsible for receiving the
authorization for
a | ||||||
11 | criminal history records check prepared by each such employee | ||||||
12 | and
submitting the same to the Department of State Police and | ||||||
13 | for conducting a check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database | ||||||
14 | for each employee. Any information
concerning the record of | ||||||
15 | conviction and identification as a sex offender of any such | ||||||
16 | employee obtained by the
regional superintendent shall be | ||||||
17 | promptly reported to the president of the
appropriate school | ||||||
18 | board or school boards.
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19 | (g) In order to student teach in the public schools, a | ||||||
20 | person is required to authorize a fingerprint-based criminal | ||||||
21 | history records check and checks of the Statewide Sex Offender | ||||||
22 | Database and Statewide Child Murderer and Violent Offender | ||||||
23 | Against Youth Database prior to participating in any field | ||||||
24 | experiences in the public schools. Authorization for and | ||||||
25 | payment of the costs of the checks must be furnished by the | ||||||
26 | student teacher. Results of the checks must be furnished to the |
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1 | higher education institution where the student teacher is | ||||||
2 | enrolled and the superintendent of the school district where | ||||||
3 | the student is assigned. | ||||||
4 | (Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 96-431, eff. 8-13-09.)
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5 | (105 ILCS 5/34-18.5) (from Ch. 122, par. 34-18.5) | ||||||
6 | Sec. 34-18.5. Criminal history records checks and checks of | ||||||
7 | the Statewide Sex Offender Database and Statewide Child | ||||||
8 | Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database. | ||||||
9 | (a) Certified and noncertified applicants for
employment | ||||||
10 | with the school district are required as a condition of
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11 | employment to authorize a fingerprint-based criminal history | ||||||
12 | records check to determine if such applicants
have been | ||||||
13 | convicted of any of the enumerated criminal or drug offenses in
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14 | subsection (c) of this Section or have been
convicted, within 7 | ||||||
15 | years of the application for employment with the
school | ||||||
16 | district, of any other felony under the laws of this State or | ||||||
17 | of any
offense committed or attempted in any other state or | ||||||
18 | against the laws of
the United States that, if committed or | ||||||
19 | attempted in this State, would
have been punishable as a felony | ||||||
20 | under the laws of this State. Authorization
for
the
check shall
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21 | be furnished by the applicant to the school district, except | ||||||
22 | that if the
applicant is a substitute teacher seeking | ||||||
23 | employment in more than one
school district, or a teacher | ||||||
24 | seeking concurrent part-time employment
positions with more | ||||||
25 | than one school district (as a reading specialist,
special |
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1 | education teacher or otherwise), or an educational support
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2 | personnel employee seeking employment positions with more than | ||||||
3 | one
district, any such district may require the applicant to | ||||||
4 | furnish
authorization for
the check to the regional | ||||||
5 | superintendent of the
educational service region in which are | ||||||
6 | located the school districts in
which the applicant is seeking | ||||||
7 | employment as a substitute or concurrent
part-time teacher or | ||||||
8 | concurrent educational support personnel employee.
Upon | ||||||
9 | receipt of this authorization, the school district or the | ||||||
10 | appropriate
regional superintendent, as the case may be, shall | ||||||
11 | submit the applicant's
name, sex, race, date of birth, social | ||||||
12 | security number, fingerprint images, and other identifiers, as | ||||||
13 | prescribed by the Department
of State Police, to the | ||||||
14 | Department. The regional
superintendent submitting the | ||||||
15 | requisite information to the Department of
State Police shall | ||||||
16 | promptly notify the school districts in which the
applicant is | ||||||
17 | seeking employment as a substitute or concurrent part-time
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18 | teacher or concurrent educational support personnel employee | ||||||
19 | that
the
check of the applicant has been requested. The | ||||||
20 | Department of State
Police and the Federal Bureau of | ||||||
21 | Investigation shall furnish, pursuant to a fingerprint-based | ||||||
22 | criminal history records check, records of convictions, until | ||||||
23 | expunged, to the president of the school board for the school | ||||||
24 | district that requested the check, or to the regional | ||||||
25 | superintendent who requested the check. The
Department shall | ||||||
26 | charge
the school district
or the appropriate regional |
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1 | superintendent a fee for
conducting
such check, which fee shall | ||||||
2 | be deposited in the State
Police Services Fund and shall not | ||||||
3 | exceed the cost of the inquiry; and the
applicant shall not be | ||||||
4 | charged a fee for
such check by the school
district or by the | ||||||
5 | regional superintendent. Subject to appropriations for these | ||||||
6 | purposes, the State Superintendent of Education shall | ||||||
7 | reimburse the school district and regional superintendent for | ||||||
8 | fees paid to obtain criminal history records checks under this | ||||||
9 | Section. | ||||||
10 | (a-5) The school district or regional superintendent shall | ||||||
11 | further perform a check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database, | ||||||
12 | as authorized by the Sex Offender Community Notification Law, | ||||||
13 | for each applicant. | ||||||
14 | (a-6) The school district or regional superintendent shall | ||||||
15 | further perform a check of the Statewide Child Murderer and | ||||||
16 | Violent Offender Against Youth Database, as authorized by the | ||||||
17 | Child Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Community | ||||||
18 | Notification Law, for each applicant. | ||||||
19 | (b) Any
information concerning the record of convictions | ||||||
20 | obtained by the president
of the board of education or the | ||||||
21 | regional superintendent shall be
confidential and may only be | ||||||
22 | transmitted to the general superintendent of
the school | ||||||
23 | district or his designee, the appropriate regional
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24 | superintendent if
the check was requested by the board of | ||||||
25 | education
for the school district, the presidents of the | ||||||
26 | appropriate board of
education or school boards if
the check |
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1 | was requested from the
Department of State Police by the | ||||||
2 | regional superintendent, the State
Superintendent of | ||||||
3 | Education, the State Teacher Certification Board or any
other | ||||||
4 | person necessary to the decision of hiring the applicant for
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5 | employment. A copy of the record of convictions obtained from | ||||||
6 | the
Department of State Police shall be provided to the | ||||||
7 | applicant for
employment. Upon the check of the Statewide Sex | ||||||
8 | Offender Database, the school district or regional | ||||||
9 | superintendent shall notify an applicant as to whether or not | ||||||
10 | the applicant has been identified in the Database as a sex | ||||||
11 | offender. If a check of an applicant for employment as a
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12 | substitute or concurrent part-time teacher or concurrent | ||||||
13 | educational
support personnel employee in more than one school | ||||||
14 | district was requested
by the regional superintendent, and the | ||||||
15 | Department of State Police upon
a check ascertains that the | ||||||
16 | applicant has not been convicted of any
of the enumerated | ||||||
17 | criminal or drug offenses in subsection (c)
or has not been
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18 | convicted,
within 7 years of the application for employment | ||||||
19 | with the
school district, of any other felony under the laws of | ||||||
20 | this State or of any
offense committed or attempted in any | ||||||
21 | other state or against the laws of
the United States that, if | ||||||
22 | committed or attempted in this State, would
have been | ||||||
23 | punishable as a felony under the laws of this State and so
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24 | notifies the regional superintendent and if the regional | ||||||
25 | superintendent upon a check ascertains that the applicant has | ||||||
26 | not been identified in the Sex Offender Database as a sex |
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1 | offender, then the regional superintendent
shall issue to the | ||||||
2 | applicant a certificate evidencing that as of the date
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3 | specified by the Department of State Police the applicant has | ||||||
4 | not been
convicted of any of the enumerated criminal or drug | ||||||
5 | offenses in subsection
(c)
or has not been
convicted, within 7 | ||||||
6 | years of the application for employment with the
school | ||||||
7 | district, of any other felony under the laws of this State or | ||||||
8 | of any
offense committed or attempted in any other state or | ||||||
9 | against the laws of
the United States that, if committed or | ||||||
10 | attempted in this State, would
have been punishable as a felony | ||||||
11 | under the laws of this State and evidencing that as of the date | ||||||
12 | that the regional superintendent conducted a check of the | ||||||
13 | Statewide Sex Offender Database, the applicant has not been | ||||||
14 | identified in the Database as a sex offender. The school
board | ||||||
15 | of any school district may rely on the certificate issued by | ||||||
16 | any regional
superintendent to that substitute teacher, | ||||||
17 | concurrent part-time teacher, or concurrent educational | ||||||
18 | support personnel employee
or may initiate its own criminal | ||||||
19 | history records check of
the applicant through the Department | ||||||
20 | of State Police and its own check of the Statewide Sex Offender | ||||||
21 | Database as provided in
subsection (a). Any person who releases | ||||||
22 | any confidential information
concerning any criminal | ||||||
23 | convictions of an applicant for employment shall be
guilty of a | ||||||
24 | Class A misdemeanor, unless the release of such information is
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25 | authorized by this Section. | ||||||
26 | (c) The board of education shall not knowingly employ a |
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1 | person who has
been convicted of any offense that would subject | ||||||
2 | him or her to certification suspension or revocation pursuant | ||||||
3 | to Section 21-23a of this Code.
Further, the board of education | ||||||
4 | shall not knowingly employ a person who has
been found to be | ||||||
5 | the perpetrator of sexual or physical abuse of any minor under
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6 | 18 years of age pursuant to proceedings under Article II of the | ||||||
7 | Juvenile Court
Act of 1987. | ||||||
8 | (d) The board of education shall not knowingly employ a | ||||||
9 | person for whom
a criminal history records check and a | ||||||
10 | Statewide Sex Offender Database check has not been initiated. | ||||||
11 | (e) Upon receipt of the record of a conviction of or a | ||||||
12 | finding of child
abuse by a holder of any
certificate issued | ||||||
13 | pursuant to Article 21 or Section 34-8.1 or 34-83 of the
School | ||||||
14 | Code, the State Superintendent of
Education may initiate | ||||||
15 | certificate suspension and revocation
proceedings as | ||||||
16 | authorized by law. | ||||||
17 | (e-5) The general superintendent of schools shall, in | ||||||
18 | writing, notify the State Superintendent of Education of any | ||||||
19 | certificate holder whom he or she has reasonable cause to | ||||||
20 | believe has committed an intentional act of abuse or neglect | ||||||
21 | with the result of making a child an abused child or a | ||||||
22 | neglected child, as defined in Section 3 of the Abused and | ||||||
23 | Neglected Child Reporting Act, and that act resulted in the | ||||||
24 | certificate holder's dismissal or resignation from the school | ||||||
25 | district. This notification must be submitted within 30 days | ||||||
26 | after the dismissal or resignation. The certificate holder must |
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1 | also be contemporaneously sent a copy of the notice by the | ||||||
2 | superintendent. All correspondence, documentation, and other | ||||||
3 | information so received by the State Superintendent of | ||||||
4 | Education, the State Board of Education, or the State Teacher | ||||||
5 | Certification Board under this subsection (e-5) is | ||||||
6 | confidential and must not be disclosed to third parties, except | ||||||
7 | (i) as necessary for the State Superintendent of Education or | ||||||
8 | his or her designee to investigate and prosecute pursuant to | ||||||
9 | Article 21 of this Code, (ii) pursuant to a court order, (iii) | ||||||
10 | for disclosure to the certificate holder or his or her | ||||||
11 | representative, or (iv) as otherwise provided in this Article | ||||||
12 | and provided that any such information admitted into evidence | ||||||
13 | in a hearing is exempt from this confidentiality and | ||||||
14 | non-disclosure requirement. Except for an act of willful or | ||||||
15 | wanton misconduct, any superintendent who provides | ||||||
16 | notification as required in this subsection (e-5) shall have | ||||||
17 | immunity from any liability, whether civil or criminal or that | ||||||
18 | otherwise might result by reason of such action. | ||||||
19 | (f) After March 19, 1990, the provisions of this Section | ||||||
20 | shall apply to
all employees of persons or firms holding | ||||||
21 | contracts with any school district
including, but not limited | ||||||
22 | to, food service workers, school bus drivers and
other | ||||||
23 | transportation employees, who have direct, daily contact with | ||||||
24 | the
pupils of any school in such district. For purposes of | ||||||
25 | criminal history records checks and checks of the Statewide Sex | ||||||
26 | Offender Database on employees of persons or firms holding |
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1 | contracts with more
than one school district and assigned to | ||||||
2 | more than one school district, the
regional superintendent of | ||||||
3 | the educational service region in which the
contracting school | ||||||
4 | districts are located may, at the request of any such
school | ||||||
5 | district, be responsible for receiving the authorization for
a | ||||||
6 | criminal history records check prepared by each such employee | ||||||
7 | and submitting the same to the
Department of State Police and | ||||||
8 | for conducting a check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database | ||||||
9 | for each employee. Any information concerning the record of
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10 | conviction and identification as a sex offender of any such | ||||||
11 | employee obtained by the regional superintendent
shall be | ||||||
12 | promptly reported to the president of the appropriate school | ||||||
13 | board
or school boards. | ||||||
14 | (g) In order to student teach in the public schools, a | ||||||
15 | person is required to authorize a fingerprint-based criminal | ||||||
16 | history records check and checks of the Statewide Sex Offender | ||||||
17 | Database and Statewide Child Murderer and Violent Offender | ||||||
18 | Against Youth Database prior to participating in any field | ||||||
19 | experiences in the public schools. Authorization for and | ||||||
20 | payment of the costs of the checks must be furnished by the | ||||||
21 | student teacher. Results of the checks must be furnished to the | ||||||
22 | higher education institution where the student teacher is | ||||||
23 | enrolled and the general superintendent of schools. | ||||||
24 | (Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07; 96-431, eff. 8-13-09.)
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25 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
26 | becoming law.
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