Teachers, Child Molesters, + Fingerprinting (was Who is disabled)

[hoov]

> I still haven't gotten an answer as to when the law was passed to require
> the fingerprinting of teachers. I presume that this law is relatively new
> (passed in the 80s or the 90s); or was the law passed much earlier?
> Isn't the law an effect of the recent waves of moral panics about sex
> offenders, especially sex crimes that concern minors? Or had the law been
> on the book even before it?
> Yoshie

I'm not aware of a federal law on above...and I'm not sure how many states 
have passed such laws, although I wouldn't be surprised if all 50 have done 
so...most laws that I'm aware of were passed in the 90s...and they vary, for 
example, in Florida and Georgia, fingerprinting is done for employment but 
not for teacher certification...Alaska & Nebraska, on the other hand, are 
among states that require prints for certification...agree that such laws 
are part of moral panic, just the kind of thing with which most politicians
like to have their names associated...

while not legislated as such, Florida parents are encouraged to have their 
children fingerprinted at school...Michael Hoover