49-10-608 - Hiring of persons who have committed child abuse prohibited.
49-10-608. Hiring of persons who have committed child abuse prohibited.
(a) The department of education, the state board of education, local boards of education and LEAs are prohibited from hiring any individual whom the department of children's services has found to have committed abuse against a child pursuant to title 37, except that no such employee or individual shall be reported as a perpetrator by the department of children's services, unless it has determined that the due process rights of each employee or individual were either offered but not accepted, or were fully concluded, pursuant to its rules and regulations and state and federal law.
(b) The department of education, the state board of education and the department of children's services, in consultation, shall develop a procedure whereby the names of all potential employees of the department of education, any local board of education or any LEA shall be submitted to the department of children's services prior to employment to determine if the potential employees were found by that department to have committed child abuse pursuant to subsection (a).
(c) The department of education and all LEAs shall not hire any individual who has been found to have abused a child or an adult and whose name has been placed on the state's vulnerable person's registry or the state's sex offender registry.
[Acts 2007, ch. 598, § 7.]