Officials seek tougher background checks
The Charlevoix-Emmet Intermediate School District is calling on the Michigan State Police to revise its name-based background check system, but the police say there are no flaws in it."If the state's system would utilize driver's license or Social Security numbers as a primary identifier, we would have significantly more confidence in it than we do," said Richard Diebold, deputy superintendent for Charlevoix-Emmet Intermediate School District.
This mistrust of the system comes after an official with the intermediate school district's AmeriCorps organization, Arthur Kirk, was found to have a lengthy criminal record. When Kirk was first brought into the program, the Charlevoix-Emmet Intermediate School District performed a criminal background check on him using the state police's online system.
The district did not have to do a fingerprint check because Kirk's position was not required to have one under state law. State law requires all certified employees, such as teachers, and administrators to have a fingerprint-based background check in schools.
The check on Kirk did not indicate he had a criminal history. However, Kirk used to use the last name Kirkeby, which was the name he was arrested and jailed under in the 1980s. The state system did not take this name into account, therefore it showed Kirk had a clean record.
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posted by Nicholas Gustavson @ 10:59 AM
1 Comments:
I think a man who used an false identy himself ( Mr. Diebold) shouldn't fault the police's efforts.
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