Kansas enacted a new law requiring background checks for state employees handling sensitive financial data, following revelations that Jonathan L. Clayton, a Commerce official with a financial felony record, oversaw $100M in pandemic relief funds. Previously,…
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City of Wichita Joins Ban the Box Movement
The city of Wichita, Kansas has joined the Ban the Box movement by implementing a new program called the Fair Chance Initiative where public sector job applications will no longer ask candidates to check a box if they have a felony conviction. The Ban the Box program…
Kansas State Board of Education Approves Background Checks for All Teachers
All teachers will now have to undergo background checks, under a policy approved 9 to 1 by the State Board of Education. The policy requires all people renewing teaching licenses to be fingerprinted. Since 2002, all applicants for new teaching license or those wanting…
Proposal Would Force All Kansas Teachers To Be Fingerprinted
A new plan to require criminal background checks for all Kansas educators is generating a lot of buzz across the state. The proposal would require teachers to be fingerprinted in order to renew their teaching licenses. For teachers who were hired after 2002, the plan…