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Fingerprinting Teachers for Criminal Record
April 16, 2015 posted by Steve Brownstein
A law put into place last year in Massachusetts was officially put “onto the books” this evening at a Chicopee school committee meeting.
School Committee voted unanimously in favor of the drafted language.
That law requires all adults working with students one on one in a school to be fingerprinted before starting work. Some say it’s a good idea being so close to the border of neighboring states.
Mary Beth Costello, a Chicopee School Committee Member told us, “It focuses on catching people who could have criminal records, especially in a town like Chicopee. And you’re not that far from Connecticut and that’s easy to go from one state to another.”
The schools have been taking finger prints since the summer months.
