MoCo OIG Blasts Taylor and MCPS for lies over backlog and non-compliance with background and CPS checks

[Anonymous]

According to the latest update via Bethesda Today, it's looking like this mistake will cost MCPS at least $1 million in emergency expenses to fix. $800,000 to hire a contractor to address the backlog and almost $300,000 to hire additional temporary staff in the county's department of child welfare services.

SOURCE: https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/08/19/mcps-contract-fingerprinting-backlog/

MCPS is recommending the school board approve a $800,000 contract with All American Protective Services, a fingerprinting service with locations in Rockville, Germantown, Bethesda and Silver Spring, to fingerprint its employees. The company would provide mobile units at several MCPS locations to process fingerprinting for approximately 11,000 staff members, according to school board documents. The school board is set to vote Thursday on the contract as part of its consent agenda.

Also, the district is working with the county and state human service departments “to move quickly, add staff, and modernize processes so every adult around students is fully screened.” An “enlarged team” within the county’s child welfare services was working within an electronic system to address CPS clearances for employees.

Mary Anderson, director of the public information office for the county government, said Tuesday the county is adding eight temporary staff to child welfare services through a staffing agency. Depending on the amount of work, Anderson said, the county may retain two to three of the staff members for a year and “gauge the need for any permanent staffing.” Anderson said the goal is to have those employees start next week.

The cost of the eight temporary staffers will be $280,000 for six months, while retaining up to three staff for the rest of the year would cost an additional $70,000 to $105,000, Anderson said.

All MCPS staff members will receive new ID badges after they are cleared and extra “badging printers and materials” have been ordered, the district said.

According to López, MCPS is “still in the process of finalizing the exact cost of the new badging materials printing.” The cost of the additional materials “will be fully covered by central services and not by individual schools,” she said.

MCPS is expected to present an update on background screening to the school board Sept. 25 and will present an update to the County Council on Sept. 26.

If the board lets Taylor and MCPS get away with this serious self-inflicted blunder with just a slap on the wrist in Thursday's board meeting, then they all need to removed and replaced.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:According to the latest update via Bethesda Today, it's looking like this mistake will cost MCPS at least $1 million in emergency expenses to fix. $800,000 to hire a contractor to address the backlog and almost $300,000 to hire additional temporary staff in the county's department of child welfare services.

SOURCE: https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/08/19/mcps-contract-fingerprinting-backlog/

MCPS is recommending the school board approve a $800,000 contract with All American Protective Services, a fingerprinting service with locations in Rockville, Germantown, Bethesda and Silver Spring, to fingerprint its employees. The company would provide mobile units at several MCPS locations to process fingerprinting for approximately 11,000 staff members, according to school board documents. The school board is set to vote Thursday on the contract as part of its consent agenda.

Also, the district is working with the county and state human service departments “to move quickly, add staff, and modernize processes so every adult around students is fully screened.” An “enlarged team” within the county’s child welfare services was working within an electronic system to address CPS clearances for employees.

Mary Anderson, director of the public information office for the county government, said Tuesday the county is adding eight temporary staff to child welfare services through a staffing agency. Depending on the amount of work, Anderson said, the county may retain two to three of the staff members for a year and “gauge the need for any permanent staffing.” Anderson said the goal is to have those employees start next week.

The cost of the eight temporary staffers will be $280,000 for six months, while retaining up to three staff for the rest of the year would cost an additional $70,000 to $105,000, Anderson said.

All MCPS staff members will receive new ID badges after they are cleared and extra “badging printers and materials” have been ordered, the district said.

According to López, MCPS is “still in the process of finalizing the exact cost of the new badging materials printing.” The cost of the additional materials “will be fully covered by central services and not by individual schools,” she said.

MCPS is expected to present an update on background screening to the school board Sept. 25 and will present an update to the County Council on Sept. 26.

If the board lets Taylor and MCPS get away with this serious self-inflicted blunder with just a slap on the wrist in Thursday's board meeting, then they all need to removed and replaced.

MCPS would pay the $800K, but not the pay for the county's temp workers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to the latest update via Bethesda Today, it's looking like this mistake will cost MCPS at least $1 million in emergency expenses to fix. $800,000 to hire a contractor to address the backlog and almost $300,000 to hire additional temporary staff in the county's department of child welfare services.

SOURCE: https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/08/19/mcps-contract-fingerprinting-backlog/

MCPS is recommending the school board approve a $800,000 contract with All American Protective Services, a fingerprinting service with locations in Rockville, Germantown, Bethesda and Silver Spring, to fingerprint its employees. The company would provide mobile units at several MCPS locations to process fingerprinting for approximately 11,000 staff members, according to school board documents. The school board is set to vote Thursday on the contract as part of its consent agenda.

Also, the district is working with the county and state human service departments “to move quickly, add staff, and modernize processes so every adult around students is fully screened.” An “enlarged team” within the county’s child welfare services was working within an electronic system to address CPS clearances for employees.

Mary Anderson, director of the public information office for the county government, said Tuesday the county is adding eight temporary staff to child welfare services through a staffing agency. Depending on the amount of work, Anderson said, the county may retain two to three of the staff members for a year and “gauge the need for any permanent staffing.” Anderson said the goal is to have those employees start next week.

The cost of the eight temporary staffers will be $280,000 for six months, while retaining up to three staff for the rest of the year would cost an additional $70,000 to $105,000, Anderson said.

All MCPS staff members will receive new ID badges after they are cleared and extra “badging printers and materials” have been ordered, the district said.

According to López, MCPS is “still in the process of finalizing the exact cost of the new badging materials printing.” The cost of the additional materials “will be fully covered by central services and not by individual schools,” she said.

MCPS is expected to present an update on background screening to the school board Sept. 25 and will present an update to the County Council on Sept. 26.

If the board lets Taylor and MCPS get away with this serious self-inflicted blunder with just a slap on the wrist in Thursday's board meeting, then they all need to removed and replaced.

MCPS would pay the $800K, but not the pay for the county's temp workers.

Montgomery County taxpayers are on the hook for all of it, regardless of the portion that MCPS will pay out. So my original point still stands: MCPS's self-inflicted blunder is resulting in over $1 million in emergency expenses that the public has to cover.

The BOE needs to hold the system accountable for this.

[Anonymous]

Is MCPS ready for tomorrow?