Alabama Education Association sues to stop background checks

Alabama Education Association sues to stop background checks

by Jason Morris

After reading this article you may say to yourself; Do Alabama educators read the newspapers? I can’t believe that in todays society an employee of any organization, let alone a college, would want to work beside someone who has never had a background check run on them.  I could go a million ways with this argument but instead I will be good, I’ll be civil and let you make your own determination.

Alabama Education Association sues to stop background checks

Associated Press - April 23, 2008 4:14 PM ET

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Alabama Education Association is suing to stop background checks on employees of Alabama’s 2-year colleges.

A suit filed in federal court in Montgomery argues that it is a violation of federal privacy laws to require junior college employees to give their Social Security numbers to a private company to do the background checks.

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