School library clerk hired despite felony conviction

State officials said they knew that a library aide at LeFlore Preparatory Academy had a felony conviction when she was hired to work for the Mobile County Public School System in 2005. Ever since 1999, Alabama law has required that criminal background checks be conducted by the state of all applicants for jobs at public schools. But because the aide’s crime wasn’t violent, did not involve children and occurred 14 years prior, state officials did not flag her as unemployable, said Edith Parten, spokeswoman for the Alabama Department of Education.

February 21, 2008 by Uncategorized 4

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4 Responses

  1. Bibliofuture says:
    February 21, 2008 at 6:34 pm

    So if people make a mistake……..
    So now we fire this woman and she does not have a job. How does she feed herself? She could resort to a life of crime.

    If you have done your sentence society needs to let people move on.

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  2. GAC says:
    February 21, 2008 at 7:09 pm

    This is a non-story
    If the gal was recently arrested or accused of something I can see a story here. Without any recent crime what is the point of pursuing this story at all?

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  3. mdoneil says:
    February 21, 2008 at 8:30 pm

    BFD
    I broke more laws driving to work this week.

    She split $21K into several small cashiers checks so her boyfriend would not have to file CTRs. Now they are worried that she might do something horrible at her $9/hr job.

    These people can’t actually be worrying about this. There has to be something more important to deal with.

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