16-22A-5
Section 16-22A-5 Agencies required to conduct criminal history background information checks. (a) A criminal history background information check shall be conducted on all applicants seeking positions with, and on all current employees under review employed by any local employing board, and any State Department of Education personnel as determined by the State Superintendent of Education, who have unsupervised access to and provide education, training, instruction, or supervision for children in an educational setting. (b) A criminal history background information check shall be conducted on all applicants seeking positions with, and on all current employees and current employees under review employed by any nonpublic school, who have unsupervised access to or who provide education, training, instruction, or supervision for children in an educational setting. (c) No institution listed in subsection (a) or subsection (b) shall hire an individual who may have unsupervised access to a...
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16-22A-3
Section 16-22A-3 Definitions. When used in this chapter only, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) APPLICANT. A certified or noncertified individual who submits an application for employment to a local employing board or any nonpublic school, to act in any capacity in which the individual will have unsupervised access to children in an educational environment. (2) APPLICANT FOR CERTIFICATION. An individual who submits an application for certification issued by the State Superintendent of Education. (3) AUTHORIZED EMPLOYER. Any educational entity authorized to obtain criminal history background information, including the State Department of Education, local employing boards, and nonpublic schools which are responsible for hiring employees or contracting with private employers to provide personnel who have unsupervised access to children in an educational setting. (4) CERTIFIED APPLICANT FOR EMPLOYMENT. A...
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16-22A-9
Section 16-22A-9 Collection and transfer of fingerprints, fees, and information. (a) Local employing boards and other public authorized employers required to obtain criminal history background information checks under this chapter shall collect and forward to the State Department of Education, two complete acceptable sets of fingerprints, written consent, and nonrefundable fee, when applicable, from applicants for certification, applicants for public employment, or public current employees under review, who have or seek to have unsupervised access to a child or children. (b) Nonpublic school employers shall voluntarily collect and forward two complete acceptable sets of fingerprints, written consent, and nonrefundable fee, when applicable, from applicants for nonpublic employment, nonpublic current employees, or nonpublic current employees under review, who have or seek to have unsupervised access to a child or children, to the Department of Public Safety to request a criminal history...
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16-22A-30
Section 16-22A-30 Criminal background information checks of current public employees. (a) A criminal history background information check shall be conducted on all current public certified employees and all current public noncertified employees employed by a local employing board, and any State Department of Education personnel, as determined by the State Superintendent of Education, who have unsupervised access to and provide education, training, instruction, or supervision for children in an educational setting. (b) Each current public certified employee and current public noncertified employee employed by a local employing board shall be notified by the State Department of Education that the State Superintendent of Education will provide a suitability determination, based upon convictions, pending criminal charges, and suitability criteria for public employment, to his or her local employing board. Each current public certified employee and current public noncertified employee shall...
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16-22A-6
Section 16-22A-6 Request from schools for criminal history background information check. (a) The State Department of Education, or other public authorized employer responsible for hiring employees who will have unsupervised access to children in an educational setting, shall request through the State Department of Education, that the Department of Public Safety secure from both the Alabama Bureau of Investigation and Federal Bureau of Investigation a criminal history background information check on each applicant for certification, certified applicant for public employment, noncertified applicant for public employment, and public current employee under review. (b) Any nonpublic school in which an individual may have unsupervised access to children in an educational setting, shall through its duly authorized representative under guidelines established by the nonpublic school employer, request that the Department of Public Safety secure a state criminal history background information...
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16-22A-7
Section 16-22A-7 Responsibilities of individuals to provide information. (a) An applicant for certification, applicant for public employment, or public current employee under review with the State Department of Education or local employing board, who has or will have unsupervised access to a child or children in an educational setting, shall, upon request, submit the following items to the State Department of Education: (1) Two functional acceptable fingerprint cards, bearing the fingerprints of the individual, properly executed by a criminal justice agency or other individual properly trained in fingerprinting techniques. (2) Written consent authorizing the release of any criminal history background information to the State Department of Education. (3) Acknowledgment that the applicant for certification, applicant for public employment, or public current employee under review received notice that the State Superintendent of Education will provide a suitability determination, based...
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16-6B-11
Section 16-6B-11 Paperwork Reduction Committee. (a) The Legislature finds that the excessive paperwork required of teachers and other public education employees hinders the prime responsibility of public education: The education of the children of Alabama. The Legislature also finds that excessive and time-consuming reporting requirements levied on school systems requires automation in order to for timely reporting to occur. The Legislature further finds that the excessive paperwork required of teachers has become so burdensome that teachers do not have adequate time to prepare lesson plans or to devote individual attention to those students who require special assistance. The Legislature further finds that, for teachers to have time to teach, it is imperative that all unnecessary paperwork be eliminated from our public schools and necessary paperwork be automated to the maximum practical extent. (b) The Paperwork Reduction Committee is created. The membership of the committee shall...
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16-24C-6
Section 16-24C-6 Termination of employment - Grounds for termination; procedures; appeals. (a) Tenured teachers and nonprobationary classified employees may be terminated at any time because of a justifiable decrease in the number of positions or for incompetency, insubordination, neglect of duty, immorality, failure to perform duties in a satisfactory manner, or other good and just cause, subject to the rights and procedures hereinafter provided. However, a vote or decision to approve a recommended termination on the part of a president of a two-year educational institution operated under the authority and control of the Department of Postsecondary Education or the governing board shall not be made for political or personal reasons. (b) The termination of a tenured teacher or nonprobationary classified employee who is not an employee of a two-year educational institution operated under the authority and control of the Department of Postsecondary Education shall be initiated by the...
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16-22A-33
Section 16-22A-33 Submission of additional reports; suitability determination. Upon request of the State Superintendent of Education, the Department of Public Safety shall request and obtain nationwide criminal history background information reports from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and statewide criminal history background information reports from the Alabama Bureau of Investigation for each current public certified employee and current public noncertified employee within a reasonable time after receipt of the request. Within a reasonable time after receipt of the reports, the Department of Public Safety shall submit both the nationwide and statewide criminal history background information reports directly to the State Department of Education. (1) If the criminal history background information reports pertain to a current public certified employee, the State Superintendent of Education shall review the criminal history record information reports and make a diligent effort to...
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16-39-9
Section 16-39-9 Reports on exceptional children. The Alabama Boys Industrial School, Alabama State Training School for Girls, Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, Alabama state Department of Mental Health, State Crippled Children's Service, the State Board of Health and the Department of Human Resources shall direct their field workers to review their case records on or before March 31 of each year and to report to the superintendent of each school board the names and other pertinent information for all persons who might, if certified by a specialist, be exceptional children in the school district and whose conditions in their opinion might require special education services. (Acts 1971, No. 106, p. 373, ยง9.)...
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