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Indiana's teacher background checks system lacks safeguards
March 25, 2016 posted by Steve Brownstein
Six dead pit bulls in plastic bags. Bloody collars. Photographs of dogs strapped down and being forced to breed. Sixteen neglected dogs that were still alive.
This was just some of the evidence that Lake County Police investigators found when they went to the Calumet Township home of Carlton Davis Jr. in May 2006.
"It's just inconceivable that someone could be so inhumane," said then-Lake County Sheriff Roy Dominguez.
But just four years later, Davis applied for — and was granted — a substitute teacher's license in 2013 by the Indiana Department of Education, after having been convicted on dog-fighting charges and serving two years in prison.
