Grand Jury Twin Hills Union School District Sep 2 7 2007 Received 700 Water Trough Road ♦ Sebastopol, Ca 95472*
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Recommendations 12
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R1The Twin Hills Union School District has an employee whose task is to communicate with the Department of Justice and is authorized to access the DOJ website.
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R4Most of the classified employees of the school district are part-time and take home less than $500 per month in wages. At this point in time, the District pays for their fingerprinting. Given the small number of employees in this small District and the large numbers of parent volunteers, shifting the costs to the employees would not create sufficient funds in the budget for fingerprinting the volunteers. The Board of Trustees agrees to look at the policy.
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R5The Board of Trustees agrees to look at this policy. We await guidelines being developed by the Sonoma County Office of Education regarding the screening of volunteers.
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R6The Board of Trustees agrees to authorize the administration to routinely check the Megan's Law website for the names of volunteers.
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R7The Board of Trustees will take this suggestion under advisement when developing the guidelines for volunteers with the Sonoma County Office of Education.
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R8The District would be happy to request this service from the Department of Justice.
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R9Currently, the District requests FBI clearance for individuals who have lived in California for less than 12 months. We will consider this alternative when we developed guidelines along with the Sonoma County Office of Education. The District will review the draft guidelines for fingerprinting from the Sonoma
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R10County Office of Education and will be revising our policies accordingly. Currently, we do require fingerprinting of all coaches.
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R11All outside contractors that come in contact with students in our school are fingerprinted.
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R13School employees do not start work until their fingerprints are cleared.
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R14The District would welcome any assistance from the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department.
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R15The District will take under advisement this suggestion when drafting our volunteer guidelines. The District will be working closely with the County Office of Education in coming months to further ensure the safety of our students. The District thanks the Grand Jury for its concern for our students. Sincerely, Donald F. Armstrong, Ed.D. Superintendent
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