DCYF Background Checks

Legislative committees took no action on DCYF legislation that would have given the agency and licensed day care providers direct access to job applicants’ entire criminal history, including records of arrests not followed by convictions. Presently, day care employers learn from police only if an applicant has been convicted of statutorily-specified “disqualifying offenses.” The ACLU argued that the legislation undermined the carefully-crafted process currently in place to weed out only those job applicants with questionable backgrounds.