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South Carolina School District Plans Sex Offender Checks on Volunteers

By Corey Rayburnyung

A school district in South Carolina plans to begin checking the names of parents who volunteer through the state's sex offender register.  We recently discussed a similar story out of Colorado. From The Greenville News: The Greenville County school district plans to start running the names of parents through the state sex offender registry to weed out potential predators who might volunteer in schools, district officials said Tuesday. Parents who don't want their name checked can opt out by telling their child's principal they don't want to be considered for any volunteer work, said Burke Royster, deputy superintendent for operations. The program will be piloted at Skyland and Taylors elementary, Beck and Sevier middle and Hillcrest and Travelers Rest high schools, and expanded to all district schools in January if there are no glitches, Burke said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on October 16, 2008 (boomark / email).