More School Fingerprinting Fuss

Fingerprinting school employees is not off to a smooth start in Texas, but a project so massive it involves not one but two state agencies could hardly be expected to be easy. At the Texas Association of School Administrators’ Midwinter Conference, school officials groused about billing options, and rural school leaders scoffed at vendors’ ability to make it to more remote school districts to fingerprint employees, but the Department of Public Safety reported that more than 11,500 people had been fingerprinted for the statewide database in January. That database will eventually be available to not only schools but also churches and other organizations that need to access information on potential volunteers.