Employee background checks

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A background check only reports on what you’ve been caught at doing before the date the check is done. It’s not going to catch most bad behavior.

Unless they check more often

How often do they run the background checks?

Only upon hire. It should be done at least every two years

Nope, yearly.

Yikes. Are we supposed to pay for it as well like what we did before we were hired?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A background check only reports on what you’ve been caught at doing before the date the check is done. It’s not going to catch most bad behavior.

Unless they check more often

How often do they run the background checks?

Only upon hire. It should be done at least every two years

Nope, yearly.

Yikes. Are we supposed to pay for it as well like what we did before we were hired?

Probably, just as long term volunteers do --pay $ to get a background check done to volunteer. It's so ridonc for teachers to have to pay.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Officer Jones?
What is he going to do now?

You realize he is in charge of safety and compliance, right? You realize background checks fall under both safety and compliance responsibilities, right?

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/press/index.aspx?pagetype=showrelease&id=13427

Was he there in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023?

He was there when Taylor was alerted, in Dec. 2024, of the non-compliance by the OIG and advised by the OIG to address the gap.

Why are you racing to hold Marcus blameless? Get a life.

Marcus and Taylor are RESPONSIBLE for not cleaning up the mess. They don't have to have originated the non-compliance to be held responsible.

Persons overseeing background checks are RESPONSIBLE. Taylor oversees that person(s).

[Anonymous]

This could be a silly question, and my apologies if it is. Ultimately, where in the hiring process for teachers, paras, therapists, administrators, and other central office positions, was all this supposed to be completed? I understand that the checks weren’t done, but shouldn’t it fall on human resources for making sure that all of these checks were completed before someone set foot in a school or office building? I feel like there should be a checklist of items that need to be done before employees set foot in a school. If it isn’t human resources, then who is responsible?

As a parent, this is very scary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This could be a silly question, and my apologies if it is. Ultimately, where in the hiring process for teachers, paras, therapists, administrators, and other central office positions, was all this supposed to be completed? I understand that the checks weren’t done, but shouldn’t it fall on human resources for making sure that all of these checks were completed before someone set foot in a school or office building? I feel like there should be a checklist of items that need to be done before employees set foot in a school. If it isn’t human resources, then who is responsible?

As a parent, this is very scary.

I think it is primarily an HR issue, but it's also a significant leadership failure since OSSI and many others had a duty to check, monitor, flag and escalate this, but didn't.

[Anonymous]

Even people working within the same unit don't know whatever needs to happen one will say one thing the other another thing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This could be a silly question, and my apologies if it is. Ultimately, where in the hiring process for teachers, paras, therapists, administrators, and other central office positions, was all this supposed to be completed? I understand that the checks weren’t done, but shouldn’t it fall on human resources for making sure that all of these checks were completed before someone set foot in a school or office building? I feel like there should be a checklist of items that need to be done before employees set foot in a school. If it isn’t human resources, then who is responsible?

As a parent, this is very scary.

Does "helicopter parent" make more sense now, parent? Last time anyone should use that label. The parents that know know that anyone within mcps who claims to be "transparent" aren't fully transparent. Get in there, parents.

[Anonymous]

There are not enough adults supervising https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1185564.page it is a well known problem. ratio is not acceptable. What has MCPS done to improve the issue?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A background check only reports on what you’ve been caught at doing before the date the check is done. It’s not going to catch most bad behavior.

Unless they check more often

How often do they run the background checks?

Only upon hire. It should be done at least every two years

Nope, yearly.

Yikes. Are we supposed to pay for it as well like what we did before we were hired?

Apparently as of 2019 there's a "rap back" system that you can enroll people in and then you automatically get notifications of future criminal issues without the employee or MCPS having to do anything else.

The issue is that there are thousands of employees that they haven't gone back to add to that system yet, because it's really time-consuming I guess. But they are going to do that now, over the course of this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This could be a silly question, and my apologies if it is. Ultimately, where in the hiring process for teachers, paras, therapists, administrators, and other central office positions, was all this supposed to be completed? I understand that the checks weren’t done, but shouldn’t it fall on human resources for making sure that all of these checks were completed before someone set foot in a school or office building? I feel like there should be a checklist of items that need to be done before employees set foot in a school. If it isn’t human resources, then who is responsible?

As a parent, this is very scary.

Does "helicopter parent" make more sense now, parent? Last time anyone should use that label. The parents that know know that anyone within mcps who claims to be "transparent" aren't fully transparent. Get in there, parents.

No need to be rude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A background check only reports on what you’ve been caught at doing before the date the check is done. It’s not going to catch most bad behavior.

Unless they check more often

How often do they run the background checks?

Only upon hire. It should be done at least every two years

Nope, yearly.

Yikes. Are we supposed to pay for it as well like what we did before we were hired?

Apparently as of 2019 there's a "rap back" system that you can enroll people in and then you automatically get notifications of future criminal issues without the employee or MCPS having to do anything else.

The issue is that there are thousands of employees that they haven't gone back to add to that system yet, because it's really time-consuming I guess. But they are going to do that now, over the course of this year.

The running themes in mcps: blast communications but none when it's needed; required tedious tasks data entry, mailings are time consuming still haven't found a way to streamline despite many staff; deflect distract spout BS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This could be a silly question, and my apologies if it is. Ultimately, where in the hiring process for teachers, paras, therapists, administrators, and other central office positions, was all this supposed to be completed? I understand that the checks weren’t done, but shouldn’t it fall on human resources for making sure that all of these checks were completed before someone set foot in a school or office building? I feel like there should be a checklist of items that need to be done before employees set foot in a school. If it isn’t human resources, then who is responsible?

As a parent, this is very scary.

Does "helicopter parent" make more sense now, parent? Last time anyone should use that label. The parents that know know that anyone within mcps who claims to be "transparent" aren't fully transparent. Get in there, parents.

No need to be rude.

Who was rude? Welcome to the largest school district in MD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A background check only reports on what you’ve been caught at doing before the date the check is done. It’s not going to catch most bad behavior.

Unless they check more often

How often do they run the background checks?

Only upon hire. It should be done at least every two years

Nope, yearly.

Yikes. Are we supposed to pay for it as well like what we did before we were hired?

Probably, just as long term volunteers do --pay $ to get a background check done to volunteer. It's so ridonc for teachers to have to pay.

In what other school system are veteran teachers regularly paying for new background checks?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A background check only reports on what you’ve been caught at doing before the date the check is done. It’s not going to catch most bad behavior.

Unless they check more often

How often do they run the background checks?

Only upon hire. It should be done at least every two years

I and several other coworkers had ours done again around 2016, but not new fingerprinting. The letter today talked around being re-fingerprinted. This confuses me. Why redo that part?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Officer Jones?
What is he going to do now?

You realize he is in charge of safety and compliance, right? You realize background checks fall under both safety and compliance responsibilities, right?

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/press/index.aspx?pagetype=showrelease&id=13427

That was before Taylor's reorg. Jones is now Chief Safety Officer in the Division of Safety & Emergency Management. Compliance falls under the HR division.